CONTRIBUTOR:

Neil Boister

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Professor

DEPARTMENT:

Law

INSTITUTION:

University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

BIOGRAPHY:

Born in Zambia and educated in South Africa, Professor Neil Boister completed his PhD on the “The Suppression of Illicit Drugs through International Law” at the University of Nottingham under the supervision of Professor DJ Harris. A revised version of the thesis was published as Penal Aspects of the UN Drug Conventions (Kluwer, 2001), described in the journal Addiction as ‘a text of magisterial authority’. He has held academic positions in South Africa, the UK and New Zealand. His main teaching interests are in criminal law and in transnational criminal law, and the latter is also his principal research interest. He has published widely in this area including most recently An Introduction to Transnational Criminal Law (Second edition forthcoming OUP, 2018) and (with Robert Currie, Dalhousie) the Routledge Handbook of Transnational Criminal Law (Routledge, 2014). In 2014 he was awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany for his work on transnational criminal law. In 2015 he was awarded the New Zealand Law Foundation’s International Fellowship to undertake a research project on the simplification of the law of extradition.