The 6-day intensive courses will focus on ongoing developments of key issues in combating international fraud, corruption and money laundering, international and European anti-fraud mechanisms and procedures, etc.

Upon completion of the course, participants will have knowledge of key issues in combating international fraud, corruption and money laundering, international and European anti-fraud mechanisms and procedures, etc.

This summer school aims at law students, young graduates and professionals with a background in law. Applicants with a background in other disciplines that are relevant to the theme of the summer school will be considered as well.

• Internet access
• Personal e-mail
• Basic computer skills
• Although applicants are not required to present an official certificate of language proficiency, they need to be fluent in English, so that they can follow the courses and interact with fellow students.

The summer school will be delivered in a hybrid format, with the option to attend in person or online, taught with the help of a simultaneous teleconferencing system, so that the participants will have the chance to interact and participate in the discussion.

Course Description

Classes will include:

• Introduction to EU Criminal Law
• Fraud against the financial interests of the EU
• Combating fraud against the financial interests of the EU – procedural perspectives
• Financial crime: EU perspectives and national problems
• The EU institutional framework on organised crime and its significance for combating financial crime, corruption and money laundering
• Organised crime: International, comparative and theoretical perspectives
• Money laundering: International and EU perspectives
• Asset recovery and confiscation
• Fighting tax crime: principles and tools
• Cybermoney – a new challenge for Criminal Law
• Corruption and political influence: a comparative study on the regulation of lobbying
• Combating corruption with Criminal Law: International and EU perspectives Combating corruption with Criminal Law: International and EU perspectives
• Validity of contracts formulated under corruption and respective civil liability
• Offshore companies and financial crime: substantive and procedural issues
• Financial crime and digitalisation: phenomenology and the way towards the E-Evidence Regulation
• Protecting fundamental rights in the fight against financial crime: General framework and Specific Issues
• Judicial Cooperation in the EU and the EPPO
• EU as a global actor at the field of financial crime

Attachments:

Summer school 2023-PROGRAMME-FINAL

The course provides participants with:

• Presentations or outlines of the lectures
• Case Law
• Reading materials

Upon successful completion of the course, participants will be awarded a Certificate of Completion.

For the successful completion of the programme, the participants should:

• have attended all the teaching units. Absences may not exceed 10% of the scheduled training hours.
• have passed the 2-hour written exams
• have paid all the tuition fees before the commencement of the programme

Participants, who have attended but not completed successfully, will be awarded a Certificate of Attendance.

For further information, please contact: anti-corruption@law.auth.gr.