Extradition, politics, and human rights
Presents the history of extradition in America. Using American constitutional law and drawing on historical cases, this title describes the collision of law and politics that occurs when a foreign country demands the surrender of individuals held to be terrorists by some and freedom fighters by others.
Print Book, English, ©2001
Temple University Press, Philadelphia, ©2001
History
x, 445 pages ; 26 cm
9781566398220, 9781566398237, 1566398223, 1566398231
43851543
Introduction
A nation of asylum
The extradition of Thomas Nash
The martyrdom of Jonathan Robbins
Extradition and slavery
First principles
Offenses of a political character
Judicial primacy
The uprising test and illiberal revolts
Noninquiry
Cold War justice
Police wars
Exempting terrorists
Urban guerrillas versus army death squads
Highjacking to freedom : extradite or punish?
Gutting the political offense exception
Deportation to achieve extradition
Retributive justice and the second Artuković case
Extradition as a substitute for deportation : getting Ivan
Ivan who? Getting the wrong man
The law of stolen people I
The law of stolen people II
Rethinking extradition