André Klip, EUROPEAN CRIMINAL LAW: AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH Antwerp, Oxford, Portland: Intersentia (http://www.intersentia.be/), Ius Communitatis vol 2, 2009. xv + 531 pp. ISBN 9780950957724. €125.
| Pages | 349-351 |
| Published date | 01 May 2010 |
| DOI | 10.3366/elr.2010.0022 |
| Date | 01 May 2010 |
If Professor Klip is right in claiming that “there is no aspect of criminal law that is excluded from the possible influence of Union law” (and I think he is, particularly following the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty), then this book is valuable reading because it explains why. Written in a practically useful way,
Particular points of interest include the fully up-to-date consideration of the Lisbon Treaty, the discrete consideration of an emerging “European sentencing and penitentiary law” in chapter 6, and a useful bibliography on European criminal law in the member states contained in the annex. A major point of contestation might include the claim of a “complete merger of the internal market and the area of freedom, security and justice” (20) which forms a key basis of this work. And as for some critical points, parts of the book lurch from the very particular to the very general in the attempt to satisfy both the academic and practitioner market, the assumption being that the latter is unlikely to have a grounding in some of the basics of EU law. There is no doubt that the skimming or skipping of whole sections will be in order for some. Finally, one irritation is that the written text of the book is punctuated by diagrams that seem (mostly) either unnecessary or unfathomable or both. Diagrams in textbooks should offer an informative and worthwhile distraction; unfortunately those in this textbook do not.
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