The 21 October 2021 ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union in case ZX (C-282/20) has generated a series of debates on the concrete way in which the Romanian courts must proceed in order to comply with the rulings of the European court. In this article, we will give an overview of what the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled on, with an emphasis on the important issues for our arguments (A), with further refere...

The purpose of this paper is to provide an introduction to the concept of whitecollar crime. Specifically, the origin and evolution of such concept will be under examination, by pursuing several theoretical and practical milestones that determined white-collar criminality to eventually stand out as a highly complex criminological phenomenon. From Sutherland’s emerging constructs to the developments brought about by the digital age, the variou...

Recently, the Court of Justice of the European Union has shaped the guidelines that a judicial authority issuing a European Arrest Warrant has to respect. CJEU analyzed on this occasion, the link between the executive power and prosecutors responsible the criminal investigation, the judges concluding that the abstract prerogative of a minister to influence a criminal investigation, even if not actually exercised, creates a doubt about the res...