The volume examines how diversity in Member States' legal cultures is being addressed in the development of EU criminal justice.

1. Legal cultures in Europe: brakes, motors and the rise of EU criminal justice Renaud Colson and Stewart Field; Part I. Constructing a Common Policy: 2. Is there an EU criminal policy? Anne Weyembergh and Irene Wieczorek; 3. The symbolic purpose of EU criminal law Thomas Elholm and Renaud Colson; 4. Why some old dogs must learn new tricks: recognising the new in EU criminal justice? Marianne L. Wade; Part II. Dealing with Diversity: 5. Eurojust in action: an institutionalisation of European legal culture? Antoine Mégie; 6. Legal diversity, subsidiarity and harmonization of EU regulatory criminal law Jacob Öberg; 7. Managing legal diversity in Europe's area of criminal justice: the role of autonomous concepts Valsamis Mitsilegas; 8. Dealing with European legal diversity at the Luxembourg Court: Melloni and the limits of European pluralism Lorena Bachmaier Winter; Part III. Resisting Harmonization: 9. Cultural barriers on the road to providing suspects with access to a lawyer John Jackson; 10. Domesticating the European Arrest Warrant: European criminal law between fragmentation and acculturation Renaud Colson; 11. What limits to harmonising justice? Chrisje Brants; 12. Crimes, remedies and videotape: an unhappy encounter with EU Law? Estella Baker.