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Criminal Proceedings, Languages and the European Union

Linguistic and Legal Issues

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Francesca Ruggieri

    1. Dept. of Law, Economics and Culture, University of Insubria, Como, Italy

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Table of contents (17 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Francesca Ruggieri
    Pages 1-2

  6. Language and the Environment: Ascending and Descending Circulation of Polysemantic Words

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. The Environmental Liability Directive and the Problem of Terminological Consistency

      • Barbara Pozzo
      Pages 123-129

    3. Emission Allowances: Non-legal Terminology and Problems of Qualification

      • Valentina Jacometti
      Pages 131-143

    4. The Influence of Directive 2008/99/EC on the Harmonization and Renewal of the Lexicon of Environmental Criminal Law

      • Chiara Perini
      Pages 145-157
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The book “Criminal proceedings, languages and the European Union: linguistic and legal issues” – the first attempt on this subject – deals with the current situation in the jurislinguistic studies, which cover comparative law, language and translation, towards the aim of the circulation of equivalent legal concepts in systems which are still very different from one another. In the absence of common cultures and languages, in criminal procedure it is possible to distinguish features that are typical of common law systems and features that are typical of civil law systems, according to the two different models of adversarial and inquisitorial trials. Therefore, the most problematic challenges are for the European Union legislator to define generic measures that can be easily implemented at the national level, and for the individual Member States to choose corresponding domestic measures that can best implement these broad definitions, so as to pursue objectives set at the European level.

In this scenario, the book assesses the new framework within which criminal lawyers and practitioners need to operate under the Lisbon Treaty (Part I), and focuses on the different versions of its provisions concerning cooperation in criminal matters, which will need to be implemented at the national level (Part III). The book analyses the issues raised by multilingualism in the EU decision-making process and subsequent interpretation of legal acts from the viewpoint of all the players involved (EU officials, civil, penal and linguistic lawyers: Part II), explores the possible impact of the EU legal acts concerning environmental protection, where the study of ascending and descending circulation of polysemantic words is especially relevant (Part IV), and investigates the new legal and linguistic concepts in the field of data retention, protection of victims, European investigation orders and coercive measures (Part V).

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  • Dept. of Law, Economics and Culture, University of Insubria, Como, Italy

    Francesca Ruggieri

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