The Emerging History of Transnational Criminal Law Relating to Cybercrime

Abstract

Dominic Brodowski digs through the early days of cybercrime’s emergence emphasizing how it acquired a strong transnational element in various ways and how dominant legal frameworks such as the Budapest Convention emerged from soft law and national legislation. He examines the more recent shift from a prosecutorial focus to the pursuit of evidence held abroad, and the rising political tension around the Russian- and Chinese-backed initiative on a UN convention on cybercrime.