Transnational and Cross-Border Criminal Law
Canadian Perspectives
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2023
- Category
- International, General
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- ISBN
- 9781552216644
- Publish Date
- Sep 2023
- List Price
- $92.00
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The time of globalization has seen an onslaught of criminal activity that crosses borders. The legal suppression and prosecution of transnational and cross-border crime raise unique and complex legal issues, and law enforcement, lawyers, and judges have struggled to keep up. Transnational & Cross-Border Criminal Law: Canadian Perspectives fills a pronounced gap in Canadian legal literature.
Written by subject matter experts, each chapter exposes and analyzes a current and pressing issue in this realm and is designed both to serve as a resource for researchers and to provide cutting-edge insight on front-burner issues. The group of authors — made up of prosecutors, defence lawyers, government counsel, academics, and civil society advocates — take on a variety of subjects, including terrorism, financial crime and corruption, jurisdiction, extradition, money laundering, trafficking, maritime enforcement, cross-border evidence-gathering, and the international transfer of prisoners. This unique collection will help to advance general understanding of one of the most pressing public policy issues of our time.
About the authors
Robert Currie is a poet and fiction writer who is a founding board member of the Saskatchewan Festival of Words and a former chairman of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild, Currie was honoured in the fall of 2009 when he received the Saskatchewan Lieutenant Governor's Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts. Currie has taught creative writing for four summers at the Saskatchewan School of the Arts in Fort San and for three summers at the Sage Hill Writing Experience in Lumsden. He is the author of ten books, including the short story collections, Night Games and Things You Don’t Forget, and the novel, Teaching Mr. Cutler. He lives in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan where he taught for thirty years at Central Collegiate, winning the Joseph Duffy Memorial Award for excellence in teaching language arts.
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Joseph Rikhof has received a BCL from the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands; an LLB from McGill University; a Diploma in Air and Space Law from McGill University; and a PhD from the Irish Centre for Human Rights. He teaches international criminal law as an adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa. He was senior counsel, Manager of the Law, with the Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes Section of the Department of Justice, Canada. He was special counsel and a policy advisor to the Modern War Crimes Section of the Department of Citizenship & Immigration between 1998 and 2002, a visiting professional with the International Criminal Court in 2005, and served with the Department of Justice from 2002 until his retirement in 2017. He is also a member of the editorial board of the Philippe Kirsch Global Justice Journal, where he regularly posts short commentaries on recent developments in international criminal justice.His area of expertise is in law related to organized crime, terrorism, genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, especially in the context of immigration and refugee law. He has published almost fifty articles, as well the books The Criminal Refugee: The Treatment of Asylum Seekers with a Criminal Background in International and Domestic Law (2012) and A Theory of Punishable Participation in Universal Crimes (with co-author Terje Einarsen, 2018), exploring these research interests, and has lectured on the same topics in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Australia, and New Zealand.
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Leah West is an assistant professor of International Affairs (National Security and Intelligence) at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, where she teaches national security law, counterterrorism, and public international law. She completed her SJD at the University of Toronto in 2020, where she studied the application of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to state conduct in cyberspace. Beyond her SJD, Leah obtained an LLM in International Humanitarian and National Security from the University of Ottawa; a JD from the University of Toronto; an MA in Intelligence from the American Military University; and is a graduate of the Royal Military College of Canada. She previously worked as a National Security lawyer with the Department of Justice and served for a decade as an officer in the Canadian Army.
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Joanna Harrington is a professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta, where she teaches public International Law and international criminal law, as well as constitutional law when not serving as an associate dean with the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research. She has degrees from the universities of British Columbia (BA), Victoria (JD), and Cambridge (PhD), and an Academy of European Law Diploma in Human Rights Law from the European University Institute in Italy. Her research and writings often focus on the interplay between international and domestic law, including the interplay between international human rights law and domestic bills of rights. From 2006 to 2008, she served as the scholar-in-residence with the Legal Affairs Bureau of Canada’s then Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, participating in the negotiation of new human rights instruments at the United Nations and the Organization of American States. Before becoming a law professor, she served as the legal officer to a member of Britain’s House of Lords during a period of significant constitutional reform.
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Stephen Schneider is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Criminology Graduate Program at St. Mary’s University.
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Adelina Iftene is Assistant Professor at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University.
Editorial Reviews
“Professor Currie has assembled a wide-ranging and insightful survey by some of the world’s leading experts on the important and rapidly developing subject of transnational criminal law. The collection demonstrates the wide reach and increasing importance of international law to Canadian criminal practice and gives practitioners ready access to the key sources and principles.”
“Applause for Professor Currie and all of the authors who contributed to this book. Cross-border and transnational issues abound in criminal law today. The deep expertise shared by the authors is probing and far-reaching, ranging from jurisdictional, to substantive, to evidence gathering and Charter issues. And that is just a start. An essential contribution to Canadian legal literature.”
“A must-read for any criminal lawyer who wants to understand the role that borders play in the investigation, prosecution, and defence of criminal cases — which should be every criminal lawyer.”
“Those who study and practice criminal law today need to understand what happens when criminal laws extend beyond Canada’s borders. This excellent collection brings together a great combination of leading academics and practitioners to provide superb commentary on a wide range of topics, from extradition to money laundering to terrorism.”
*Professor Currie was the first academic of the globalization era to identify a core problem with our concepts — namely, tackling crimes that cross borders requires understanding of both criminal law and international law, but legislators, policy-makers, and lawyers do not truly share a common legal language. Through this multi-layered collection, he continues to advance understanding of an increasingly necessary field.*
