• E4J University Module Series: Organized Crime

• Module 11: International Cooperation to Combat Transnational Organized Crime

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• Mutual legal assistance (MLA)
• Extradition
• Transfer of criminal proceedings
• Transfer of sentenced persons
• Summary
• References

• Exercises

• Case studies and exercises
• Thinking critically through fiction
• Excerpts of legislation

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Review and assessment questions
• Quiz 11
• Research and independent study questions

• Additional teaching tools

 

Published in May 2018

Regional Perspective: Pacific Islands Region - added in November 2019

 

 

  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Exercises

 

This section contains material that is meant to support lecturers and provide ideas for interactive discussions and case-based analysis of the topic under consideration. 

• Case studies and exercises
• • Mutual Legal Assistance in a Child Pornography Case
  • Mutual Legal Assistance in a Drug Trafficking Case
  • Extradition Refusal on Grounds of Inhuman Treatment
  • Hacker "Kolypto" Extradited from Norway
  • Dotcom et al. v. the United States
  • Extradition of Ze'ev Rosenstein
  • Operation Eagle (Cook Islands)
  • Principle of Double or Dual Criminality (Samoa)
  • Extradition / alternatives to extradition
• Thinking critically through fiction:
• • Snowden
• Excerpts of legislation
• • Vanuatu's Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Act
  • Cook Islands' Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act
  • European arrest warrant and the surrender procedures between Member States
  • Extradition Law of the People's Republic of China