ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to provide a comprehensive typology of norm-making in transnational criminal law, by focusing on both the adoption of norms at the global level and on issues of implementation and compliance. It focuses on how the making of transnational criminal law has shifted from traditional forms of international law-making – namely multilateral international treaties – to other forms of governance including regionalism, 'soft' or 'informal' law and 'global administrative law'. The chapter highlights the interaction and inter-relationship between these forms of governance in the development of a multi-level paradigm of global governance of transnational crime and explores the implications of this paradigm on justice and the rule of law. It also highlights a number of parallel and innovative processes of internationalisation and globalization and also explores their impact on law-making in a complex global arena. The emergence of multilateral conventions in the field of transnational crime is inextricably linked with changes in the post-Cold War security landscape.
