Thinking outside of the Box: Bilateralism as a compensatory mechanism in post-Brexit law enforcement and judicial cooperation in criminal matters
(2024) University Association for Contemporary European Studies — Location: Trente (2.September.2024)
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Piquet, Agathe 
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- While there is now a fast-growing academic literature on Brexit Studies, focusing in particular on the unfolding of the UK-EU negotiations and on the impact of the UK’s exit on specific policy fields, limited attention has been devoted to post-Brexit policy dynamics occurring within UK-EU member states law enforcement and judicial cooperation. More specifically, although it is now clear that the TCA has enabled cooperation to continue in this field, albeit on a reduced scale, what we currently know little about is how the UK and EU Member States are developing coping strategies to compensate for that reduction. The article proposes, therefore, to explore how the UK and EU Member States are using bilateralism to build on the TCA in order to deepen their law enforcement and judicial cooperation in criminal matters. Through a frame analysis of 24 bilateral declarations signed between the UK and Member States (2021 to 2023), the article argues that although there has been a partial disengagement of the UK from EU Justice and Home Affairs’ governance and instruments, bilateralism is contributing to maintaining a close level of cooperation between law enforcement and judicial authorities, which the authors understand as a form of venue-shopping in a multi-level system.
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Farrand Carrapico, H., Piquet, A., Wolff, S., & et al. (2024). Thinking outside of the Box: Bilateralism as a compensatory mechanism in post-Brexit law enforcement and judicial cooperation in criminal matters. University Association for Contemporary European Studies, Trente. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/234289