The Palermo Convention at Twenty

Institutional and Substantive Challenges
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-44840-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 90 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 159 g

Reihe: Brill Research Perspectives in International Law / Brill Research Perspectives in Transnational Crime

The twentieth anniversary of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (Palermo, 2000) is a timely moment for an appraisal of the Convention system, its developments (including the recently adopted review mechanism) and the challenges it faces. In The Palermo Convention at Twenty: Institutional and Substantive Challenges experts with different backgrounds begin such a discussion by focusing on the institutional and substantive features of the Convention and its potential as a tool for countering different forms of criminality – including some that were not meant, in principle, to fall under its scope.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Forlati, Serena

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Strafrecht, Internationales Verfahrensrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 20 Years from Its Adoption

Strengths, Achievements and Challenges Ahead

Tania Bañuelos Mejía

Abstract

Keywords

Introduction

1 Strengths

2 Achievements

3 Challenges Ahead

The Review Mechanism of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and Its Protocols

An Analysis Based on Peer Review Methodology

Christian Ponti

Abstract

Keywords

Introductory Remarks

1 Common Features of the Peer Review Methodology and the Preliminary Phase of the Process

2 Consultation

3 Assessment

4 The Legitimacy of the UNTOC Review Mechanism

5 Conclusion

The Implementation Review Mechanism of the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC)

What Role for Civil Society?

Ian Tennant and Prem Mahadevan

Abstract

Keywords

Introduction

1 What Is Civil Society?

2 What Value Can Civil Society Add to the Review Mechanism?

3 The Debate about the Role of Civil Society

4 What Was Agreed in 2018?

5 What Space for Civil Society in the Mechanism?

6 Analysis of the Role Given to Civil Society by the Convention and the Review Mechanism

7 How Does the UNTOC Review Mechanism Compare with Other Mechanisms?

8 Conclusion

9 Postscript: Connecting the Local and the Global

Integrating the UNCAC and the UNTOC for Effective Prevention and International Cooperation

Challenges for Global Crime Governance

Uglješa Ugi Zvekic

Abstract

Keywords

Introductory Remarks

1 The UNTOC

2 The UNCAC

3 The Role of Civil Society

4 Concluding Observations

The Palermo Convention and the Fight against Terrorism

Julie Alix

Abstract

Keywords

Introduction

1 A Different Methodological Approach towards Two Categories of International Crime

2 Elements for Rethinking the Articulation between the International Efforts to Fights against Terrorism and Transnational Organized Crime

International Cooperation for the Repression of Core Crimes

What Role for the UNTOC?

Alessandra Annoni

Abstract

Keywords

Introduction

1 The Scope of the International Obligation to Prosecute Core Crimes

2 The Obligation to Cooperate for the Repression of Core Crimes

3 The Applicability of the Cooperation Regime Established by the UNTOC

4 Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Serena Forlati, LLM (Bruges), Ph.D. (Rome La Sapienza), is Professor of International Law at the University of Ferrara. Among her publications are S. Carnevale, S. Forlati, O. Giolo (eds), Redefining Organized Crime – A Challenge for the European Union? (Hart, 2017) and S. Forlati, P. Franzina (eds), Universal Civil Jurisdiction – Which Way Forward? (Brill/Nijhoff, 2020).