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Following the Brexit vote, the relationship between the European Union and the United Kingdom must be radically redefined. This also holds true for the broad field of (European) Criminal Law and Justice. The papers presented in this special issue aim to initiate a broader discussion on the implications of Brexit for European criminal justice by laying out the options for a post-Brexit UK-EU relationship. For the ease of our readers unfamiliar with European Criminal Law and Justice, this introductory paper explains its basic features and the main techniques of influencing the criminal law of the Member States: neutralisation, conforming interpretation, assimilation, approximation, mutual recognition and institutionalisation.
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Kai Ambos is Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Comparative Law and International Criminal Law at the Georg-August Universität Göttingen (Germany), Judge at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers (The Hague, Netherlands) and Editor-in-Chief. The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers. E-mail: kambos@gwdg.de.
Stefanie Bock is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany), Executive Director of the International Research and Documentation Centre for War Crimes Trials (Marburg, Germany) and Associate Editor. E-mail: stefanie.bock@jura.uni-marburg.de.
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Ambos, K., Bock, S. Brexit and the European Criminal Justice System – An Introduction. Crim Law Forum 28, 191–217 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10609-017-9318-7
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10609-017-9318-7