Chapter 5

Cybercrime Law: A European Perspective

Bert-Jaap Koops and Tessa Robinson

Contents

Countries in Europe have fundamentally different legal systems, unlike the United States, which at least share a common framework. Europe has countries with a common-law system (the United Kingdom and Ireland) as well as countries with a civil-law system (most Continental countries), which have different traditions in the sources of law.

Several initiatives are under way to increase consistency in legal frameworks among countries ...

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