I am delighted to provide readers with two updates about “the book” for which this blog was originally intended as a supplement. First, the second edition of International & Transnational Criminal Law has been published by Irwin Law Inc., a

As discussed in Chapter 7 of the book, Canada is a party to the OECD’s Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, as well as to the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, which

CBC is reporting that a man named Gregory Logan of Woodmans Point, New Brunswick, has been convicted of seven counts of trafficking in parts of a protected species, specifically narwhal tusks. Logan was fined $385,000 and received a conditional sentence

As readers will know, this blog has been a bit inactive of late. Poor form, I suppose. However, one advantage to taking a bit of a break is that it allows one to reflect and think about developments over a

The UN Security Council has passed Resolution 2098, which authorizes the UN peacekeepers of the MONUSCO mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to arrest individuals who have been indicted by the International Criminal Court. A demonstration of

In the long-running saga of the American extradition case against Kim Dotcom, owner of the Mega-Upload internet “sharing” service (media reports here), the New Zealand Court of Appeal has recently overturned lower court decisions ordering the US, as requesting

The case of convicted Canadian spy Sub-Lt. Jeffrey Delisle has been the focus of great attention by the Canadian media for the last few days, due to the fact that Delisle’s sentencing hearing was held over the course of January