Janssens, C: Principle of Mutual Recognition in EU Law

Introduction; Part I Frame of Reference: Mutual Recognition in the Internal Market Context; 1 The Principle of Mutual Recognition as Judicial Impetus for the Free Movement Provisions; 2 The Development of the Principle of Mutual Recognition in the Secondary Legislation; 3 The Workability of the Principle of Mutual Recognition in the Internal Market; 4 Conclusions on the Principle of Mutual Recognition in the Internal Market; Part II Mutual Recognition in the EU Criminal Justice Area; 5 The Mutual Recognition Principle as Judicial Impetus for a Powerful and EU-Wide Application of the ne bis in idem Principle; 6 The Principle of Mutual Recognition as Legislative Impetus for Efficient Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters; 7 The Workability of the Principle of Mutual Recognition in Criminal Matters; 8 Conclusions on the Principle of Mutual Recognition in the EU Criminal Justice Area; Part III Mutual Recognition from a Cross-Policy Perspective: A Search into the Viability of the Internal Market Analogy; 9 The Introduction of the Principle of Mutual Recognition in Two Diverging, but Intertwined, Policy Areas; 10 The Mutual Recognition Mechanism: Object, Actors, Mechanism, and Characteristics; 11 The Workability of the Principle of Mutual Recognition; 12 General Conclusions; Bibliography

Christine Janssens holds a Master's degree in Law (Universiteit Antwerpen, 1999) and Criminology (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2007), an LLM in EU Law (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid) and a Ph.D. in Law (Universiteit Antwerpen, 2011). She is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Fund for Scientific Research Flanders (FWO), at the University of Antwerp where she performs research in the field of EU law, with an emphasis on EU criminal law and EU internal market law. Prior to that, she completed a traineeship at the European Commission's DG Justice and Home Affairs and worked as a legal counsel in an international company.