Transnational Criminal Law in a Globalized World

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Chapter Four - Transnational Criminal Law in a Globalized World

The Case of Trafficking

from Part II - Transnational Legal Ordering and Transnational Crimes

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2020

Prabha Kotiswaran

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Gregory Shaffer and

Ely Aaronson

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Gregory Shaffer: Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
Ely Aaronson: Affiliation:
University of Haifa, Israel

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The chapter examines the evolution over the past twenty years of a complex transnational legal order or TLO around the 2000 Palermo Protocol on Trafficking. It elaborates on why despite the Protocol’s high rates of ratification, the anti-trafficking TLO is poorly institutionalized attributing it to the various phases of the TLO’s development, the discursive and ideological issues that are at its core, the factors for its institutionalization relating to concordance and issue alignment, and the varied regulatory fields that it has implicated. Paradoxically however, the criminal justice approach to trafficking inherent in the Palermo Protocol remains hegemonic. This hegemony however cannot be simply attributed to the unidirectional influence and dissemination of transnational (and Western) ideas about how to address the problem. Rather, using the example of the India, the chapter shows how national legal contexts are crucial to when and how the logic of criminalization is pursued. The recursive nature of the trafficking TLO is therefore significant and helps explain the normative basis for the authority of transnational law.

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transnational legal ordering trafficking Palermo Protocol organized crime modern slavery forced labour slavery practices similar to slavery indicators India

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