Transnational Organised Crime - Seminar
Professor Andreas Schloenhardt, 1st Semester
Objectives of the course
Course Aims
This course explores the international legal framework to prevent and suppress transnational organised crime, including drug trafficking, smuggling of migrants, and trafficking in persons. The course outlines and examines the criminology, levels, patterns, and modi operandi of these crime types, their criminalisation in international and domestic laws, and analyses national, regional and international strategies to investigate such crime and prosecute offenders.
The course gives students a comprehensive understanding of contemporary patterns and characteristics of transnational organised crime and relevant international frameworks. The seminars, exercises and working-group sessions during the course invite students to critically reflect on the nature and limitations of international criminal law conventions and understand the rationale of international, regional, and domestic policies in this area.
The course further seeks to improve students’ communication, presentation, discussion, and writing skills. The course enhances students’ abilities to research policy documents and legal material, critically analyse legislation, case studies and scholarly writing, present to an academic audience, and elaborate practical recommendations for law reform and policy change relevant to the subject area.
Note: The course will be taught, and all assessment will be conducted, exclusively in English language.
