The aim of the Module is to provide the participants with an extensive knowledge of EU law and dynamics concerning the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice in criminal matters, together with all sensitive questions it raises in respect to general principles of internal criminal law. In order to achieve this objective, the project provides for three years of highly qualified teaching, and precisely a yearly teaching activity of 52 hours structured as follow: an Introductory lecture (4 hours) and 10 seminars on specific topics (4 hours each); a one day conference (8 hours), opened to the general public, as a closing event of each single year of teaching. Each seminar will be articulated in two parts: frontal lecture (2 hours) and discussion on cases studies (2 hours). The first year will be focused on the general framework of the EU Area of Criminal Law (historical evolution, decision-making issues, jurisdictional control), as well as on the EU competences of harmonisation of national legislations and the principle of mutual recognition, designed as the cornerstone of judicial cooperation. The second year of teaching will deal with the analysis of the main EU legal instruments and EU soft law concerning particularly serious crimes, such as money laundering, terrorism, illegal immigration, environmental crimes, euro counterfeiting and organised crime. The third year will examine the principal tools for cooperation in criminal matters, together with a presentation and analysis of the main actors of the EU area of criminal justice and will also deal with the future creation of the EU Public Prosecutor’s Office as provided for in art. 86 TFEU. As its general approach, the Module will examine the way forward after the Lisbon treaty, and specially after 1st December 2014 when the transitional period has expired and problematic issues of the so-called “Lisbonisation” of the Areas of the former “third pillar” have arisen.