The emergence of a model of cooperative justice in Europe : horizontal dimensions

Lecture given at the EUI, Florence, on 5 December 2013.The lecture deals with the horizontal dimensions of the model of cooperative justice emerging in Europe. This cooperation is largely considered: a) in the European space, through the new forms of direct cooperation between the different national legal systems, especially the court-to-court cooperation, instead of the traditional pattern of coordination, mainly diplomatic and indirect; b) in domestic systems, with the development of a cooperative model of procedure, transcending the distinction of accusatorial and inquisitorial types, parties and judges having the duty to cooperate in order to reach a fair and rapid solution of the case