The aim:
1. To provide fundamentals of international cooperation and mutual assistance at the regional (EU) and international level.
2. To acquaint the student with critical notions, principles, values, sources and types of international cooperation and mutual assistance.

Acquired knowledge:
1. Students have the knowledge of the character of international cooperation and mutual assistance, their legal bases and principles.
2. Students have the knowledge of the subjects and objects of international cooperation and mutual assistance.
3. Students have the knowledge of types and outcomes international cooperation and mutual assistance.

Acquired skills:
1. Students are able to identify and interpret the law as it stands.
2. Students are able to identify and describe types of international cooperation and mutual assistance.
3. Students are able to recognise values and outcomes international cooperation and mutual assistance.

Acquired social skills:
1. Students are able to present and defend in public their position regarding international cooperation and mutual assistance.
2. Students are able to identify main legal and technical problems regarding international cooperation and mutual assistance.

Course contents: 
1. Administrative cooperation in AFSJ: legal bases, objectives and principles.
2. Instruments of administrative cooperation: exchange of information, administrative assistance.
3. Institutional cooperation: networks and bodies Frontex, EASO, hotspots).
4. Joint administrative teams and joint operations.
5. Mutual recognition of administrative acts.
6. Judicial cooperation in criminal matters: legal bases, objectives and principles; general aspects of criminal procedure; definition of criminal offences and sanctions;crime prevention; EU strategy on criminal justice.
7. Types of judicial cooperation; Networks and bodies: Eurojust, European Judicial Network and European Public Prosecutor’s Office.
8. Mutual recognition; War crimes.
9. Police and customs cooperation: Police cooperation, Europol, Maintaining public order and safety and Customs cooperation.
10. International cooperation: United States, Russia, Canada, China and India, European Neighbourhood Policy, Eastern Partnership, Southern Mediterranean, Enlargement countries; Africa, Central Asia, International organisations, Global approach to migration and mobility.

Recommended reading: 
1. Police Cooperation in the European Union Under the Treaty of Lisbon : Opportunities and Limitations, H. Aden, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft . 2015.
2. International Police Cooperation : Emerging Issues, Theory and Practice,, Frederic Lemieux (ed.), Taylor & Francis Ltd. 2011.
3. Trust in International Police and Justice Cooperation, S. Hufnagel, C. McCartney, Hart Publishing. 2017.
4. The Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters in the European Union : The Discipline of the European Arrest Warrant, G. Sorcale, Lambert Academic Publishing . 2016.
5. ReNEUAL Model Rules on EU Administrative Pocedure, P. Craig et al., Oxford . 2017.
6. Research Handbook on EU Administrative Law, C. Harlow et al. , Edward Elgar Publishing . 2017.