*CANCELLED* Fair criminal proceedings in Europe: the limits of regulating by legal rules

This conference is cancelled and will be held in fall 2020. The new date will follow soon.

The goal of this conference is to identify the impediments to improving cooperation in the area of criminal matters. The method is to bring together experts from various disciplines to discuss the challenges in the ‘harmonisation’ of the criminal procedural systems of the EU Member States by means of legislation.

The following challenges will be discussed:

• Defining certain interdisciplinary concepts, such as ‘risk’, ‘vulnerability’, ‘proof’ or ‘procedural justice' for the purposes of EU legal regulation;
• Determining the paths for ensuring proper enforcement of these concepts: legislation, policy or other paths (including: to what extent these matters could be left to the individual discretion of criminal justice actors)
• Enforcing the respective regulations and other measures in practice: What are the most important obstacles (culture, lack of expertise/training, funding, etc.)? What is our ‘theory of change’ with respect to enforcement by Member States’ governments, national criminal justice institutions, and individual criminal justice actors?

The conference will focus on those concepts, which raise important interdisciplinary questions, and which are subject to the current or prospective EU regulation. It is organised by Dr. Anna Pivaty, Prof. André Klip and Dr. Dorris de Vocht (FoL), Dr. Melanie Sauerland (FHML) with participation from UNU-MERIT (FaSoS).

Cost: € 100 for regular participants, € 50 EUR for students/PhDs including dinner (day 1) and lunch (day 2), € 0 EUR for students/PhDs excluding dinner (day 1) and lunch (day 2), € 0 for invited speakers and employees of the European Commission
Registration and additional information: www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/fair-criminal-proceedings-europe-limits-regulating-legal-rules