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August 2, 2021

NOTE: this piece originally appeared as an editorial in the Chronicle Herald on June 8, 2021. Since then, I have contacted Nova Scotia MPs Andy Fillmore (Halifax), Geoff Regan (Halifax West) and Jaime Battiste (Sydney-Victoria), as well as the Ministers

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Accused Appearing at Trial Via Video Conference from Foreign State

By Rob Currie

March 5, 2021

I recently received a question from a friend about whether Canada permits accused persons to appear at their trial via video conferencing, when they are located in a foreign state. I did a spot of research (i.e. I emailed a

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Border Search of E-Devices Ruled Unconstitutional

By Rob Currie

November 6, 2020

In the recent case of R. v. Canfield, the Alberta Court of Appeal gave the decision that some Canadian criminal defence lawyers and those who follow our search and seizure jurisprudence have been waiting for: the limitless, warrantless search

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Is Canada Helping Other Countries Kill People?

By Rob Currie

August 23, 2020

This post is re-printed from The Conversation, under the terms of a Creative Commons license. The original can be found here. The Conversation is a great platform where academics are able to publish publicly-digestible reflections from their research and

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Third Edition Published

By Rob Currie

April 25, 2020

I am delighted to announce that the 3rd edition of our book, International & Transnational Criminal Law, was published in January 2020. The publisher’s blurb is below, and the book can be ordered here. Speaking of the publisher, Joseph

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If “climate strikes” fail, what’s next? Forecasting transnational “climate terrorism”

By Rob Currie

December 26, 2019

(this article originally appeared in The Lawyer’s Daily, 18 October 2019 issue (paywalled). I also did a radio interview on this subject on 22 October 2019) As I write this, cities all across Canada are gearing up for the second

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Histories of Transnational Criminal Law

By Rob Currie

November 16, 2019

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending a conference entitled “Histories of Transnational Criminal Law,” which was organized and convened in Hannover, Germany by Prof. Neil Boister of the University of Canterbury, Prof. Florian Jeßberger of

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Canada Committed “Colonial Genocide”: Report

By Rob Currie

June 26, 2019

As has been widely reported, the National Inquiry Into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls recently released its Final Report. It was accompanied by an explosive Supplementary Report that provides a legal argument (hereafter the “Genocide Argument” or “Argument”)

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Extradition Scrap: Netherlands Court Bars Extradition Over UK Prison Conditions

By Rob Currie

May 19, 2019

As has been widely reported (try here and here), a Dutch court recently ruled that an alleged narcotics smuggler could not be extradited from the Netherlands to Great Britain, because of atrocious conditions at the prison in Liverpool, England.

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New Book: Einarsen & Rikhof, “A Theory of Punishable Participation in Universal Crimes”

By Rob Currie

December 9, 2018

I am delighted to announce the publication of a terrific-looking new book: A Theory of Punishable Participation in Universal Crimes, by Professor Terje Einarsen of the University of Bergen, and my knowledgable and able co-author, Dr. Joseph Rikhof, recently retired

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