Histories of Transnational Criminal Law

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This edited collection provides an in-depth account of the history of key developments in transnational criminal law. While the history of international criminal law is now a much written about topic, the origins of most modern transnational criminal laws are not well understood. Histories of Transnational Criminal Law provides for the first time a set of legal histories of state efforts to combat and cooperate against transnational crime. With contributions from a group of word-leading experts, this edited volume traverses a range of topics, beginning with the normative, intellectual, and institutional histories of transnational criminal law. It then moves to the histories of specific transnational crimes ranging across eras from piracy to cybercrime, and finishes by examining jurisdiction, modes of liability, different forms of procedural cooperation, and the predicament of the individual in transnational criminal law. The book highlights specific issues and how they have been resolved, in the loose assemblage of norms, institutions, and practices that constitutes transnational criminal law.

About the author

Neil Boister is Professor and Head of the School of Law, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He completed his PhD under the supervision of Professor David Harris on the "The Suppression of Illicit Drugs through International Law" at the University of Nottingham. He has held academic positions in South Africa, the UK and New Zealand, where he has taught mainly mainly in criminal law, and published widely in the field of international criminal law and transnational criminal law. He has worked as an expert consultant and reviewer for a number of international NGOS and IGOS. Sabine Gless, Dr. iur. (Bonn, Germany), Dr. iur. habil (Münster, Germany), is Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Basel in Switzerland where she holds the Chair for Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure. Her research interests in international criminal law include evidence law as well as issues of human rights in transnational criminal law. She held visiting positions at NYU, NUS, UW Madison and Princeton. She serves on commissions of the Swiss National Science Foundation and on the Review Board of Legal Studies of the German Research Association. Florian Jeßberger is Professor of Criminal Law and Director of the Franz von Liszt Institute for International Criminal Law, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. A co-editor of the Journal of International Criminal Justice, he has published widely on issues of German, international, and comparative criminal law. Before joining Humboldt-Universität, he held the Chair in Criminal Law, International Criminal Law, and Modern Legal History at Universität Hamburg where he also served as a Vice Dean. He was a Visiting Fellow or Professor, inter alia, at the University of Oxford, the University of Ferrara, and the University of the Western Cape.

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