Neil Boister - Routledge Handbook of Transnational Criminal Law

Routledge Handbook of Transnational Criminal Law

Certain types of crime are increasingly perpetrated across national borders and require a unified regional or global response to combat them. Transnational criminal law covers both the international treaty obligations which require states to introduce specific substantive measures into their domestic criminal law schemes, and an allied procedural dimension concerned with the articulation of inter-state cooperation in pursuit of the alleged transnational criminal.

The Routledge Handbook of Transnational Criminal Law provides a comprehensive overview of the system which is designed to regulate cross-border crime. The book looks at the history and development of the system, asking questions as to the principal purpose and effectiveness of transnational criminal law as it currently stands. The book brings together experts in the field, both scholars and practitioners, in order to offer original and forward-looking analyses of the key elements of the transnational criminal law.

The book is split into several parts for ease of reference:

, fundamental concepts surrounding the international regulation of transnational crime.

, procedures for international cooperation against alleged transnational criminals including jurisdiction, police cooperation, asset recovery and extradition.

, substantive crimes covered by transnational criminal law analysing the current legal provisions for each crime.

, the implementation of transnational criminal law and the effectiveness of the system of transnational criminal law.

With chapters from over 25 authorities in the field, this handbook will be an invaluable reference work for students and academics and for policy makers with an interest in transnational criminal law.

Neil Boister is a Professor at the University of Waikato, New Zealand and is the author of An Introduction to Transnational Criminal Law (2012).

Robert J. Currie is Associate Professor at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, Canada and is the co-author (with Joseph Rikhof) of International and Transnational Criminal Law 2ed (2013).

This handbook is a very timely and important contribution to the literature on transnational crime, covering key dimensions of this emerging area of law and policy. Both jurisdictional and procedural aspects of the topic are covered as well as aspects of its implementation in global, regional and domestic state practice. Incisive analysis from leading scholars and practitioners in the field of transnational criminal law combine to make this an invaluable reference.

Dr Robin Warner, Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS), University of Wollongong, Australia

Routledge Handbook of Transnational Criminal Law

Edited by Neil Boister and Robert J. Currie

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Contents

Neil Boister and Robert J. Currie

Neil Boister

Robert J. Currie

James Sheptycki

Slawomir Redo

Valsamis Mitsilegas

Roger S. Clark

Saskia Hufnagel and Carole McCartney

John A.E. Vervaele

Charles Monteith and Pedro Gomes Pereira

Joanna Harrington

Tom Obokata

Anne T. Gallagher

Lindsay Buckingham

Bernard Leroy

Catherine E. Drummond and Anthony E. Cassimatis

Arianna Visconti

Rob White

Jay L. Batongbacal

Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan

William Gilmore

John Hatchard

Douglas Guilfoyle

Christopher Ram

Ben Saul

Andreas Schloenhardt

Yvon Dandurand and Vivienne Chin

Jay L. Batongbacal is a lawyer from the Philippines, and holds the degrees of Master of Marine Management and Doctor in Jurisprudential Science, both from Dalhousie University in Canada. Since 1997, he has done work in maritime affairs, including community-based fisheries management, coastal resource management, marine environment protection, maritime boundaries, high seas fishing, offshore energy, seafaring and shipping. He was legal advisor to the Philippine delegation that successfully pursued the Philippines claim to a continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles in the Benham Rise Region before the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf. He is presently an Assistant Professor at the University of the Philippines College of Law, and concurrently Director of the Institute for Maritime Affairs and Law of the Sea of the U.P. Law Center.

Neil Boister is Professor in the Te Piringa Faculty of Law, University of Waikato, New Zealand. A graduate of the universities of Natal and Nottingham, he has held academic positions in South Africa, the UK and New Zealand, where he has taught transnational criminal law, international criminal law, criminal law, evidence and criminology. His principal research interest is the suppression of transnational crime through international law. His PhD from the University of Nottingham resulted in the publication of Penal Aspects of the UN Drug Conventions (Kluwer, 2001). He has written numerous pieces exploring transnational criminal law more generally beginning with Transnational Criminal Law? (2003) 14(5) European Journal of International Law 953976. In 2012 he published An Introduction to Transnational Criminal Law (OUP). He works as a consultant on issues in transnational criminal law. In 2014 he was awarded a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by the Humboldt Foundation in Germany in recognition of his work in this field.

Lindsay Buckingham is currently a Principal Legal Officer with the Transnational Crime and Corruption Branch, Australian Government Attorney-Generals Department. Within the Australian Government she has worked across a range of transnational crime law and policy issues, including leading Australias engagement in mechanisms under the United Nations criminal justice system, and delivering technical assistance programs to support partner countries implementation of transnational crime obligations under international legal instruments. She has also worked as a Solicitor with the Child Protection Practice Group of the New South Wales Crown Solicitors Office. Lindsay has previously worked as a consultant on child sex tourism, trafficking in persons and migrant smuggling projects with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Regional Centre for East Asia and the Pacific, and with the International Labour Organizations Project to Combat Trafficking in Children and Women in the Greater Mekong Subregion. She holds a combined Bachelor of Arts and Laws (Hons) from Macquarie University, and a Master of Laws from the University of Sydney.