The module examines the historical evolution and the sources of European and in particular EU criminal law, the liberal guarantees enshrined in it and the effects this legal field has on national criminal law and the general formation of anti-criminal policy, particularly following the Treaty of Lisbon which granted the EU with broad criminal law powers. The content of key EU legal tools, as well as of specific significant Council of Europe conventions, pertaining to substantive criminal law implementation in the areas of fraud against the EU’s financial interests, money laundering, corruption, organised crime and confiscation are thoroughly analysed. Furthermore, the module discusses the main EU legal tools and selected Council of Europe conventions relating to procedural criminal law which play a pivotal role in the prosecution of economic crime within the contemporary framework of transnational judicial cooperation.

Law and economics is one of the fastest-growing areas of applied microeconomics. It uses the standard microeconomic tools and concepts of scarcity, choice, preferences, incentives, supply and demand to explain legal and political rules, social conventions and norms, firms and contracts, government organizations, and other institutions. Our perspective will be that of the lawyer, viewing these institutions under the lens of purposeful human choice. The economic approach to the Law has both predictive and prescriptive functions. Law schools around the world are devoting increasing attention to understanding economic analysis of legal institutions. The course will give special emphasis to contract law, tort law, criminal law and family law applications of economic analysis. It will also examine the complex relationship between economic efficiency and social justice and discuss the importance of social norms.

he aim of the course is to provide students with the necessary theoretical knowledge of EU law pertaining on the issue of personal data protection and its practical application. It will provide them with comprehensive knowledge of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Directive 2016/680, Directive 2002/858 (e-Privacy), as it has been amended, and other EU legal rules governing data protection. The course examines basic concepts concerning data protection on the basis of a theoretical analysis of privacy in the 21st century, particularly in view of the exceptional circumstances that arose within the context of the recent Covid-19 pandemic. Furthermore, more specified issues will be addressed, including, but not limited to, the protection of digital rights, the role and responsibilities of the Data Protection Officer (DPO), the implementation of the principle of accountability, the one-stop-shop, the coherence mechanism, the powers of data protection authorities to implement the provisions, the role of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), international data transfers, etc. This course also examines the legal aspects of the creation of the Digital Union in the EU. In particular, the European Telecommunications and Electronic Commerce Law and the EU’s space policy in the field of communications are studied.

This course’s basic area of coverage is current issues of European labour law and social policy. That, in practice, will also cover a wide area of EU substantive law, through which the socio-economic life of the Union is regulated. Relevant EU Treaties and the European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights will be analyzed. After a short introduction to the international and regional European labor law framework, students will be acquainted with major EU social policy case law and secondary legislation in the fields of free movement of workers and European social citizenship, employment rights and work organization, non-discrimination, and gender equality law, work-life balance of employees, transfer of undertakings and collective redundancies, working time and non-standard forms of employment, social rights, and economic freedoms, posting of workers, social dialogue and collective bargaining, employee information, consultation, and participation. By the end of this course, students should be able to comprehend some of the major issues of the European social integration process and to distinguish the specific features of the European social model in an international and comparative law context.

Το Δίκαιο της Ενέργειας αποτελεί τμήμα της ύλης του γνωστικού αντικειμένου του Διεθνούς Οικονομικού Δικαίου και διδάσκεται στο πλαίσιο του μεταπτυχιακού μαθήματος ΔΙΕΘΝΕΣ ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΚΟ ΔΙΚΑΙΟ της κατεύθυνσης ΔΙΕΘΝΩΝ ΣΠΟΥΔΩΝ του διετούς φοίτησης Π.Μ.Σ. της Νομικής Σχολής του ΑΠΘ. Συγκεκριμένα, διδάσκεται και στα δυο έτη του Π.Μ.Σ. (α' και β' έτος). Το μάθημα αυτό αποσκοπεί στο να εξοικειώσει τους φοιτητές με το Δίκαιο της Ενέργειας σε εθνικό και κυρίως διεθνές επίπεδο. Μελετώνται τα νομικά ζητήματα που τίθενται σε όλες τις δραστηριότητες (παραγωγής, εμπορίας, μεταφοράς, διανομής και κατανάλωσης ενέργειας) για όλες τις πηγές ενέργειας (υδρογονάνθρακες, ηλεκτρική ενέργεια, εναλλακτικές πηγές ενέργειας) πλην της πυρηνικής.