Law Assignment

Please see the following for assignment requirements and attached

course guideline.

The research essay asks you to develop a research essay that engages

appropriately with course content. As a research essay, you will be

graded both on the quality of your research and its presentation as an

essay, with attention to the following criteria:

• level of engagement with the task, the material and the course

• the cogency of your argument

• quality of your essay’s overall structure

• the effectiveness of your critical analysis

• the extent to which you handle the material in a thoughtful,

interesting, or original way

• the care you demonstrate by the quality of the submitted document

Choose a topic from the following:

1. Drawing on a new policy measure to address a specific example or

issue of global crime, evaluate the potential for it to contravene

international law, violate the laws of another nation or cause

diplomatic tensions.

2. Drawing on a specific example or issue of global crime, highlight

the connections between an illicit or shadow economy and its

state-sanctioned or legal counterpart. What are the implications for

the responding agencies if they wish to reduce the harm caused by this

practice?

3. Drawing on a specific example or issue, describe how increased

global mobility or technological innovation has led to the emergence

of a new form of criminality. What changes have to be made to the

relevant agencies in order to respond effectively?

What we have covered so far:

Week Two: Global Crime, Sovereignty and the State

Week Three: Global Crime, Trade and the Market

Week Four: Global Crime, Mobility and the Border

Week Five: Responding to Global Crime

Week Six: Terrorism and Counterterrorism

Week Seven: Smuggling and Trafficking

Week Eight: Crimes by States and Corporations

Week Nine: Crimes against the Environment

Week Ten: Global Surveillance, Global Security

Week Eleven: Global Technologies, Global Threats

Overall, global crime is a complex phenomenon of politics, economy,

power and environment, and they are inter-correlated with each other

within the new infrastructure of global mobility. Please make sure you

reflect the connection between these factors when you write this

paper.

Obviously try to adhere to it as much as you can but do not limit

yourself to the guideline! However daunting the above may sound, it is

after all an undergraduate degree essay so feel free to engage in a

way that you are most comfortable with and allow room for improvement.

Please let me know if you need any clarification!

Thank you.