Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2021
ISSN
0015-704X
Publisher
Fordham University School of Law
Language
en-US
Abstract
Overcriminalization has rightly generated national condemnation among policymakers, scholars, and practitioners alike. And yet, such scholarship often assumes that the encroachment of criminal justice stops at our borders. This Article argues that our foreign relations are also at risk of overcriminalization due to overzealous prosecution, overreaching legislation, and presidential politicization—and that this may be particularly problematic when U.S. criminal justice supplants certain nonpenal U.S. foreign policies abroad. This Article proposes three key reforms— presidential distancing, prosecutorial integration, and legislative de-escalation—to assure a principled place for criminal justice in foreign relations.
Recommended Citation
Steven A. Koh,
The Criminalization of Foreign Relations
,
in
90
Fordham Law Review
737
(2021).
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https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/3083
