Welcome to the project website of the European Criminal Policy Initiative (ECPI). The ECPI is devoted to contributing to a coherent criminal policy at the level of the European Union. This international group of scholars aims to promote the respect for fundamental legal principles such as the principles of legality, proportionality, subsidiarity or coherence, the principle of guilt or the rule of law and to individual rights by analysing present and proposed legislation and . Please feel free to find out more about us and our mission, to read our Manifesto or to explore other related past and present work. We would also like you to contribute to our project by sharing your ideas of how to devise a criminal policy for Europe.
Invitation ECPI conference 14.12.2018 (PDF)
The objective of the research project funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – DFG) is to develop guidelines for the future harmonisation of criminal sanctions in the EU that shall be primarily addressed to the European legislator. The…
Viviane Reding, Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, actively participated in ECPI’s conference on the „Future of Criminal Proceedings in the European Union“ in Brussels last Tuesday, the 12th of November 2013, with…
The ECPI will host a one-day Experts‘ Conference on the “Future of Criminal Proceedings in the European Union” on Tuesday, November 12th 2013, from 9.00 a.m. at the Representation of the Free State of Bavaria to the European Union in…
From the 11th to 13th of October 2013, the ECPI gathered in Munich for the last time in 2013 . At this meeting on the premises of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the group completed the work on „A…
From July 3rd to 6th, 2013, the ECPI welcomed around 30 international guests to engage in a discussion on European criminal policy. From July 3rd to 4th, 15 postgraduate students from all over Europe convened in Munich to discuss current…
In July, the ECPI hosted its second expert workshop on European criminal policy on the premises of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. The ECPI had prepared a draft version of its future Manifesto on European Criminal Procedure and presented what has…
The first issue of the EuCLR 2013 is now available. For this issue, the editors selected papers on very basic topics with regard to criminal justice. Claus Roxin (Munich) submitted a contribution on the so called goods-in-law doctrine (Rechtsgutstheorie) and relates scholarly opinions…
From April 11th to 13th, 2013, the ECPI met for another working meet in Cluj, Romania. At this meeting, the group finalised a draft version of their proposed Manifesto, which is due to be presented at an expert workshop in…
Following the postgraduate seminar, the ECPI hosted an expert workshop on European criminal policy on the premises of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. Seven renowned experts who had not been involved in the previous work of the group shared their views…