Course Title : European Criminal Law
Code		Course Type	Regular Semester	Lecture (hours/week)	Seminar (hours/week)	Lab (hours/week)	Credits	ECTS
LAW 334-1		D	5	3	0	0	3.00	4
Lecturer and Office Hours
Teaching Assistant and Office Hours
Language				Albanian
Course Level
Description		The course will consist of presenting the whole criminal norms (materials, procedural and penitentiary) common to some of the European countries that were created in order to successfully combat crime, especially organized crime.
Objectives		The student will become familiar with the entirety of the criminal norms common to some of the countries of Europe.
Course Outline
Week	Topics
1	European Criminal Law, an evident need - The relative unity of European criminal law - The priority of European law over national rights - Preservation of national legislations versus the European rights
2	Criminal Law of the Council of Europe
3	Major Mutual Aid: Extradition
4	Conventions with regard to certain types of offenses - Conventions on Crime Against Person European Conventions in connection with the Traffic - Violations European Conventions in connection with acts violating the fundamental human rights
5	European Convention on the purchase and possession of Firearms - Conventions on Economic Crime - Convention on Criminality and its Optional Protocol - Conventions on Terrorism
6	Criminal Law of the European Convention of Human Rights - Jurisdiction of Human Rights
7	Content of Human Rights
8	Midterm Exam
9	Procedural Rights
10	Criminal Law of the European Union
11	A real unity of resources: Respect for the Fundamental Rights General Criminal Law - Special Criminal Law - Criminal procedure
12	Effects of Community law over the national criminal law
13	Abandoning the pillars structure and similar issues
14	Police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters
15	Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
16	Final Exam
Prerequisites
Textbook
Other References
Laboratory Work
Computer Usage
Other
Learning Outcomes and Competences
1	Acquaintance with the entirety of the criminal norms common to some of the countries of Europe
Course Evaluation Methods
In-term studies						Quantity	Percentage
Midterms						1	40
Quizzes						0	0
Projects						0	0
Term Projects						0	0
Laboratory						0	0
Attendance						0	0
Contribution of in-term studies to overall grade							40
Contribution of final examination to overall grade							60
Total							100
ECTS (Allocated Based on Student) Workload
Activities					Quantity	Duration (hours)	Total Workload (hours)
Course Duration (Including the exam week : 16 x Total course hours)					16	3	48
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)					14	2	28
Assignments					0	7	0
Midterms					1	8	8
Final examination					1	10	10
Other					0	0	0
Total Work Load							94
Total Work Load / 25 (hours)							3.76
ECTS							4

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