Conference: 15th Anniversary of the Entry into Force of the Palermo Convention

The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (Palermo Convention), in force since 2003, is today the most important international instrument for the prevention and repression of transnational organized crime. The Osservatorio sulla criminalità organizzata (CROSS) and the Centre for European Legal Studies on Macro-Crime (Macrocrimes), with the support of the Department for international, legal and historical-political studies (DILHPS) of the University of Milan and of the Department of Law of the University of Ferrara, have jointly organized a conference on the 15th anniversary of the entry into force of the Palermo Convention. The first day of the conference will take place in Milan on May 3, 2019 and is devoted to “Mafia and countering mafia in the Italian experience and the Palermo Convention” (in Italian). The second session, dealing with “The Palermo Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 2003-2018; implementing the treaty system” (in English), will be held in Ferrara on May 10, 2019. The program is here.