Models of confiscation without conviction and asset forfeiture in Latin American comparative law. Origin, trends, and transformations by Constitutional Justice

  • Emilio J. Urbina Mendoza Universidad Católica Andrés Bello
Keywords: Asset forfeiture, Confiscation without conviction, Model Law, Constitutional Courts, Trends

Abstract

Asset forfeiture, as a Latin American variant of the global institution -especially in Europe- known as confiscation without conviction, is a mechanism that is gradually incorporated into global legal systems. Beyond its supranational normative concretion both in the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC 2003) and the UNODC Asset Forfeiture Model Law (2011), its introduction in Latin American States comes from policies against economic crime of multilateral organizations such as the FATF and the European Union. However, the definitive concretion has been by the Constitutional Courts or Chambers of Latin America, in which true domain extinction models have been created (dominant, denialist and challenging versions).

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Author Biography

Emilio J. Urbina Mendoza, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello

Profesor Doctor en la Universidad Católica Andrés Bello

Published
2023-12-22
How to Cite
Urbina Mendoza, Emilio J. 2023. “Models of Confiscation Without Conviction and Asset Forfeiture in Latin American Comparative Law. Origin, Trends, and Transformations by Constitutional Justice”. Estudios De Deusto 71 (2), 259-99. https://doi.org/10.18543/ed.2934.
Section
Studies