Rate My Professor Michiel Luchtman

Luchtman's research examines the impacts of Europeanisation on criminal justice and law enforcement, with emphasis on criminal law and fundamental rights, economic criminal law, and criminal tax law. Expertise areas include administrative criminal law, European criminal law, criminal procedure, human rights, and comparative criminal law. He has led projects funded by NWO VIDI and VENI grants, EU Hercule programmes, and co-founded the Jean Monnet Network on EU law enforcement (EULEN) with an Erasmus+ grant in 2019. Notable awards include the Siracusa Prize in 2009 for his book 'European cooperation between financial supervisory authorities, tax authorities and judicial authorities', NWO VIDI award in 2014, and VENI grant in 2008. Key publications encompass books such as 'Transnationale rechtshandhaving: Over fundamentele rechten in de Europese strafrechtelijke samenwerking' (2017), 'Choice of forum in cooperation against EU financial crime' (2013), and edited volumes like 'EU Enforcement Authorities: Punitive Law Enforcement in a Composite Legal Order' (2023) and 'Law Enforcement by EU Authorities: Implications for Political and Judicial Accountability' (2017). He contributes to editorial boards of Utrecht Law Review and Melai Internationaal, serves on NWO committees and others, supervises PhD candidates, and delivers frequent invited lectures on EU criminal justice topics across Europe.