Fireplace Talk on Justice & Home Affairs and Police Cooperation: European Arrest Warrant
This was the seventh event in the Fireplace Talks on the 30th Anniversary of the Maastricht Treaty, organised by UM Campus Brussels. It focused on one of the policy fields laid out by the Maastricht Treaty and in particular - Justice & Home Affairs and Police Cooperation. The discussion focused on the European Arrest Warrant, a simplified cross-border judicial surrender procedure, which is meant to prosecute or execute a custodial sentence or detention order.
Our guest speakers for the talk were André Klip, Professor of Criminal Law at Maastricht University and Jan Van Gaever, Advocate General at Prosecutor General’s Office, Brussels.
The event was moderated by the Director of UM Campus Brussels, Prof. Mariolina Eliantonio, and the Associate Director, Associate Prof. Paul Stephenson.
Guest Speakers
André Klip
André Klip is Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and the Transnational Aspects of Criminal Law at Maastricht University. Since 2016, he is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He conducted research at the Yale Law School, New Haven and the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg im Breisgau. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Penal Law. He is founder and editor of the Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals (65 volumes since 1999). He is author of European Criminal Law. An integrative Approach (Intersentia Cambridge, 4th edition 2021).
Throughout his career, professor Klip has been frequently involved in national and international legal practice. Both as an academic and as a practitioner he is very much engaged in international cooperation. Within the Maastricht Institute for Criminal Sciences he heads an interdisciplinary research group which is frequently invited to conduct studies on crime, perpetrators and how to combat criminal behaviour. He is a judge at the ’s-Hertogenbosch Court of Appeal (criminal division) in the Netherlands.
Jan Van Gaever
Jan Van Gaever is the Advocate General at Prosecutor General's Office, Brussels. He is a law graduate and worked as a lawyer from 1987 to 1995. In 1995, he became a magistrate. Since 2005, he has been Deputy Attorney General at the Brussels Public Prosecutor's Office, where he is responsible for international cooperation, among other things. Jan Van Gaever is the author of numerous contributions on national criminal law and international cooperation. He was a member of the editorial board of the Tijdschrift voor Strafrecht (Dutch Journal of Criminal Law) and is regularly active as a guest lecturer or expert in Belgium and abroad.