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Understanding the french criminal justice system as a tool for reforming international legal cooperation and cross-border data requests

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In an increasingly interconnected world, law enforcement agencies may need access to evidence stored overseas. To help national law enforcement agencies work together more effectively, a large number of Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties (“MLATs”) have been signed from 1970 onwards. MLATs have become an area of international dispute, with states becoming increasingly frustrated with the length and complication of the process for requesting electronic evidence. Its reform is of the outmost importance. As part of a larger project on reforming international legal cooperation, some work and projects have emerged, including the Georgia Tech Cross-Border Data Requests Project of which this paper is a part. This paper describes the current French criminal process, as an example of a mature European legal system. Then, it explains the steps required for French investigating authorities to access evidence located in the U.S. under the current framework. Finally, it illustrates that each legal system maintains different checks and balances that must be carefully considered in reforming any multilateral legal cooperation. It finally opens ways of reform.
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hal-03605105 , version 1 (16-12-2022)

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Suzanne Vergnolle. Understanding the french criminal justice system as a tool for reforming international legal cooperation and cross-border data requests. TOBIAS BRÄUTIGAM; SAMULI MIETTINEN. Data Protection Privacy and European Regulation in the Digital Age, Unigrafia, pp.205-228, 2016, Forum iuris, 978-951-51-2530-9. ⟨hal-03605105⟩
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