François Kristen (1972) is full-time professor in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law & Criminology, Utrecht School of Law. He studied law at Tilburg University and received his doctor’s degree cum laude from this university in 2004 with his thesis ‘Insider Trading According to European Law. A study into the underlying principle and the operation of the European prohibition on insider trading, with attention for the effect of European Community Directives on criminal law’. He was awarded the 2005 prize for the best thesis defended at TilburgUniversity in the academic year 2004-2005.
His main research topics are substantive criminal law, criminal procedure, European criminal law and financial criminal law. Kristen carries out research on Dutch substantive criminal law and criminal procedure. Within this field he focuses among other things on research topics such as legality and guilt as conditions for criminal liability and its consequences for elements of an offence. Furthermore, he conducts research on European criminal law and the way in which European rules relating to criminal law affect national criminal law. With respect to financial criminal law Kristen specializes in the topics of insider dealing on financial markets and money laundering.
He teaches the bachelor’s courses ‘Criminal Law I’ and ‘Criminal Procedural Law’ and the master’s courses ‘Concepts of Substantive Criminal Law’ and ‘Economic Criminal Law’. The latter course also contains aspects of European Criminal Law. He also gives lectures on different topics for post-academic educational purposes, for example lectures on financial criminal law and European Criminal Law.
Furthermore, he is part-time judge at the Court of Appeals ‘s-Hertogenbosch. He is also editor of the authoritative loose-leaf commentary on all articles of the Dutch Code of Criminal Procedure, the publication A.L. Melai & M.S. Groenhuijsen et al (eds.), Het wetboek van strafvordering, Deventer: Kluwer.
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