Organized Crime is a growing and evolving problem with particular relevance to transnational legal research. Legal Atlas is compiling a database of environmental crime related legislation. Environmental Crime covers a wide variety of legal instruments from constitutions to protected areas, organized crime, money laundering, wildlife, and trade specific legislation. Legal Atlas' database strives to provide access to the entire set and show how it relates to trade. To date, full or partial sets have been completed for 165+ countries globally.
Sponsorship by:
ORGANIZED CRIME PROJECTS
Legal Research and Database Development: Organized Crime
Sponsored by ENACT Africa and GITOC, Jan - June 2018
Project to identify key legal content to support a targeted indexing exercise. Project was conducted by a joint team comprised of experts from Legal Atlas, ENACT, and GITOC. The role of Legal Atlas in this project was the rapid compilation, publication, and tagging of legislation covering organized crime as a dedicated concept (limited to five (5) specific types of organized crime) to support a fair assessment of the ‘political will’ countries have in addressing the issue as evidenced in part by their legal preparedness.
The scope of the project was global resulting in a digital recored in excess of 1,000 related laws in 165 countries. In addition to its paid research, Legal Atlas provided additional in-kind contributions that included advisory services related to identifying and sourcing relevant legislation; advisory services on methods specific to comparative legal analyses; and database development and maintenance.
The scope of the project was global resulting in a digital recored in excess of 1,000 related laws in 165 countries. In addition to its paid research, Legal Atlas provided additional in-kind contributions that included advisory services related to identifying and sourcing relevant legislation; advisory services on methods specific to comparative legal analyses; and database development and maintenance.
TOCLaw Environment: Deconstructing the laws on environmental crime into data
Initial LaunchInitial July 2018 continuing updates 2018... covering
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The Global Initiative Against Transnational Crime to develop a comprehensive global database of laws for environmental crime. Because of the size of the database, this effort has been divided into five (5) phases focusing on different types of legislation, as follows:
1. Criminal Law only – considers only how crimes affecting the environment are incorporated in specific criminal codes and procedures, including organized crime statutes. This excludes criminal sanctions included in separate, environmental legislation.
2. Priority Resources – this comprises criminal sanctions included in laws governing specific resources (water, forest, etc.). It does not yet include all environmental laws. 3. Law Type – includes all environmental laws, including those that do not focus on a particular resource (e.g., environmental impact assessments, green building codes, etc.) 4. Harm Caused – considered broader than the Law Type focus as it includes laws that are not considered environmental, but are related to the topic because the harm caused impacts the environment (e.g., transportation laws). 5. Relationship – similar to the Harm focus, but considered broader as it also includes legislation where no nexus to environmental harm is required, but is a legal tool used in prosecution (e.g., corrupt practices or money laundering legislation). Phases I and V combined...The first phase of research is focusing on criminal and other laws related to the prosecution of environmental crimes including:
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