Leah West

The time of globalization has seen an onslaught of criminal activity that crosses borders. The legal suppression and prosecution of transnational and cross-border crime raise unique and complex legal issues, and law enforcement, lawyers, and judges have struggled to keep up. Transnational & Cross-Border Criminal Law: Canadian Perspectives fills a pronounced gap in Canadian legal literature. Written by subject matter experts, each chapter exposes and analyzes a current and pressing issue in this realm and is designed both to serve as a resource for researchers and to provide cutting-edge insight on front-burner issues. The group of authors -- made up of prosecutors, defence lawyers, government counsel, academics, and civil society advocates -- take on a variety of subjects, including terrorism, financial crime and corruption, jurisdiction, extradition, money laundering, trafficking, maritime enforcement, cross-border evidence-gathering, and the international transfer of prisoners. This unique collection will help to advance general understanding of one of the most pressing public policy issues of our time.

Espionage, sabotage, and intelligence operations lie at the heart of modern warfare, yet the study of their legal regulation remains fragmented and underdeveloped. This volume examines the central role of intelligence gathering, espionage, and sabotage in modern armed conflict and challenges the persistent assumption that such covert activities exist beyond meaningful legal constraint. Bringing together leading scholars in international humanitarian law, national security law, intelligence studies, and human rights, the book addresses a significant gap in the literature by providing a systematic analysis of how law governs "conflict in the shadows." Drawing on contemporary case studies including the Russia-Ukraine war, it investigates AI-enabled targeting, cyber sabotage, civilian intelligence networks, and hybrid warfare. The contributors adopt a doctrinal and interdisciplinary approach to assess how existing legal frameworks apply across the spectrum of conflict, including peacetime operations, armed conflict, occupation, and counterterrorism. The volume highlights how technological change, the growing role of civilians and private actors, and the blurring of boundaries between war and peace have outpaced traditional legal categories. Law in the Shadows of War argues that the primary challenge is not the absence of legal rules, but the need to interpret and apply existing principles to reflect contemporary operational realities. In doing so, it lays the foundation for more coherent legal analysis and improved accountability in intelligence-driven warfare.

National Security Law, 2e, is about the law governing the Canadian state's response to serious crises -- that is, events that jeopardize its national security. The book approaches national security law as a system, organizing its discussion of law around five themes: structure (the mandate and roles of national security agencies); threats (aggression, terrorism, interference, proliferation, and emergencies); information (domestic and international intelligence collection, sharing, and information secrecy); response (including security screening and assessment, aviation "no fly" listings, passport revocation, immigration detention and removals, peace bonds, preventive detention, threat reduction, defensive and offensive cyber, criminal prosecutions, and use of force); and accountability (national security review). Given the evolution of Canadian law in these areas, this second edition is a comprehensive rewrite of the first edition, first published in 2007. Readers may be interested in this primer course on national security law that the authors have created in support of the book.