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16 Nigerian L.J. 1 (2012)

handle is hein.journals/nlj16 and id is 1 raw text is: 1 TRANSNATIONAL LEGAL PRACTICE AND CROSS- BORDER CRIMINALITY By Emeritus Professor Adedokun A. Adeyemi* 1. Introduction This paper takes a broad look at cross-border criminality, as well as trans-national legal practice, and the relationship between the two. Transnational legal practice has quite a number of dimensions: In one sense, it can mean practising law across one's own national jurisdictional boundaries. In another sense, it could mean engaging in legal practice before international courts/tribunals. And yet, in another sense, it can also mean setting up an international legal practice within one's own national Jurisdictional boundaries. This paper, therefore, seeks to examine the topic from each of these three dimensional perspectives. But it shall first examine the issue of cross-border criminality. 2. Cross-border criminality ....there are certain crimes which are stimulated by factors and forces outside the national, and, even, * FNIALS, Emeritus Professor of the University, Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Lagos; Formerly Dean, Faculty of Law, and Dean, School of Postgraduate Studies, respectively, University of Lagos; Formerly Member of the United Nations Committee on Crime Prevention and Control; Vice-President, International Society of Social Defence; Member, International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law, and Formerly Member of its Executive Committee, and former Co-Chairman of its Human Rights Network; Member of the Council, International Scientific and Professional Advisory Council of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme (ISPAC); formerly, Director, Justice Division, United Nations Operation in Somalia, (UNOSOM II); Past President, Board of Trustees of the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) in Turin, Italy; Past Chairman, National Committee on Crime Prevention and the Treatment of Offenders; Past Chairman, National Committee on Prison Reform; Chairman, Nigerian National Working Group on Alternatives to Imprisonment; Chairman, Nigerian National Working Group on Juvenile/Child Justice Administration; Chairman, National Technical Committee on the Establishment of Pro Bono Services and Diversion in the Family Courts; Consultant to the UNODC, Vienna, and UNDOC, Abuja, Nigeria, on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Matters; Consultant to UNICEF on Child Rights and Child Protection Issues; Member, Nigerian National Child Rights Implementation Committee; Lagos State Child Rights Implementation Committee; etc.; being text of the Keynote Address at the Maiden Dr. Akinola Aguda Memorial Lecture/Seminar on Transnational Legal Practice and Cross-border Criminality, held at the University of Lagos, Lagos Campus of the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies on 15 and 16 February 2012.

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