A couple of years ago I posted about a wonderful conference that I attended in Hannover, Germany, entitled "Histories of Transnational Criminal Law." The conference was organized by Profs. Neil Boister, Sabine Gless and Florian Jeßberger, and featured an all-star cast of academics who work in this field. I'm very pleased to note here that the collection of papers that came out of the conference has been published.
Histories of Transnational Criminal Law is now available from our friends at Oxford University Press. In it you will find some great reading, (hopefully) including a chapter by Prof. Sara Wharton and me called "Transnational Criminal Courts: A Partially-Realized Idea." Here is the publisher's blurb:
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 world-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.
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