The Palermo Convention at Twenty Institutional and Substantive Challenges (Brill Research Perspectives in International Law / Brill Research Perspectives in Transnational Crime)

The twentieth anniversary of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (Palermo, 2000) is a timely moment for an appraisal of the Convention system, its developments (including the recently adopted review mechanism) and the challenges it faces. In The Palermo Convention at Twenty: Institutional and Substantive Challenges experts with different backgrounds begin such a discussion by focusing on the institutional and substantive features of the Convention and its potential as a tool for countering different forms of criminality – including some that were not meant, in principle, to fall under its scope.

Serena Forlati, LLM (Bruges), Ph.D. (Rome La Sapienza), is Professor of International Law at the University of Ferrara. Among her publications are S. Carnevale, S. Forlati, O. Giolo (eds), Redefining Organized Crime – A Challenge for the European Union? (Hart, 2017) and S. Forlati, P. Franzina (eds), Universal Civil Jurisdiction – Which Way Forward? (Brill/Nijhoff, 2020).