The CEAD Francisco Suárez (Universidade Lusófona) and Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona) are pleased to announce the launch of the Advanced Course in Economic Criminal Law.
The Course will be coordinated by Inês Fernandes Godinho (CEAD-FS / Universidade Lusófona) and Núria Pastor Muñoz (Pompeu Fabra University), and will be delivered entirely online in a bilingual format (Portuguese and Spanish).
The course will feature academics from both universities: José de Faria Costa; Ricardo Robles Planas; Alexandra Vilela; Beatriz Goena Vives; Inês Fernandes Godinho; Ivó Coca Vila; Bruno de Oliveira Moura; Núria Pastor Muñoz; Joaquim Sabino Rogério; and Jesús-María Silva Sánchez.
Topics covered will include: Fundamental issues in Economic Criminal Law; Perpetration and participation within the corporate context; Economic regulatory and sanctioning frameworks and the unlimited expansion of Economic Criminal Law; The general framework of corporate criminal liability: models of liability, penalties and ne bis in idem; Compliance programme models: self-regulation, heteroregulation and the relevance of compliance programmes to the criminal liability of legal persons; Disloyal management: the foundations and limits of criminal wrongdoing and its relationship with corporate and commercial law duties of care (BJR, LJR); Corruption in the private sector: the foundations and limits of criminal intervention; Criminal law protection of investors: corporate acquisitions, minority shareholders and external shareholders in corporate groups; Between Cooperation and Sovereignty: Extradition and the Prosecution of Economic Crime in Europe; Issues in the theory of crime in Economic Criminal Law.
The Course will run from 7 January to 11 March 2027, with sessions held every Thursday from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. (Portugal time) and from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (Spain time). The registration fee is 250€.
As places are limited, we invite interested participants to register their interest by completing the registration form. Further information on the formal registration process will be provided to selected applicants shortly.
For any questions or further information about the Course, please contact us at penal.economico.cead.upf@gmail.com.
