TY - JOUR
T1 - A transnational police network co-operating up to the limits of the law
T2 - examination of the origin of INTERPOL
AU - Calcara, Giulio
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - INTERPOL was not created by a treaty, nor was it created by states. INTERPOL was developed by a group of diverse domestic police officers, who structured the international entity and designed its legal framework in order to co-operate within the limits set by the laws of their respective countries. As a product of the police environment, for many years INTERPOL was constituted in a way that made it look like a private police club, feeding the general confusion concerning the membership, the role, and the legal status of the organisation. Addressing many of the historical traits of INTERPOL provides a key for understanding the reasons behind the current configuration of central parts of INTERPOL's legal framework, as well as their past and present significance. For this purpose, this article explores the history of INTERPOL by presenting fragments of historical legal documents, which are then analysed and contextualised.
AB - INTERPOL was not created by a treaty, nor was it created by states. INTERPOL was developed by a group of diverse domestic police officers, who structured the international entity and designed its legal framework in order to co-operate within the limits set by the laws of their respective countries. As a product of the police environment, for many years INTERPOL was constituted in a way that made it look like a private police club, feeding the general confusion concerning the membership, the role, and the legal status of the organisation. Addressing many of the historical traits of INTERPOL provides a key for understanding the reasons behind the current configuration of central parts of INTERPOL's legal framework, as well as their past and present significance. For this purpose, this article explores the history of INTERPOL by presenting fragments of historical legal documents, which are then analysed and contextualised.
KW - international organisation
KW - INTERPOL
KW - legal history
KW - police
KW - transnational network
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85088948678&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/20414005.2020.1793282
DO - 10.1080/20414005.2020.1793282
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85088948678
SN - 2041-4005
VL - 11
SP - 521
EP - 548
JO - Transnational Legal Theory
JF - Transnational Legal Theory
IS - 4
ER -