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Reforming International Extradition
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03 September 2024

This book uses several case studies to demonstrate current problems with international extradition. These include political issues, time delays, jurisdictional problems, and conflict between surrender and the human rights of extraditees. The normative assumptions underpinning extradition ensure these procedures are more likely to prioritise international comity between nation states, rather than individual human rights protections. This creates a system with limited judicial relief for extraditees that require extensive proof of high human rights thresholds, as well as a prominent rule of non-inquiry, restrictive evidence regulations, and deference to the executive. The book argues that a defendant-centred approach to extradition reform is needed that prioritises a right to fairness as a core value for promoting global justice. This includes considering changes to enable greater post-extradition monitoring of extradited people and broadening rules for extraditees to submit evidence to support a claim against surrender. New and more viable extradition alternatives also involve transferring evidence to shift the trial to the location where most of the offending activity occurred and sentencing in the extraditee’s home jurisdiction. These proposals aim to counter the current unequal levels of authority that favour the power of both the requesting and requested state over the rights of the individual.
LAW / Courts, Legal aspects of criminology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Human rights, civil rights, Legal systems: courts and procedures
“A welcome addition to the literature, Kennedy and Warren’s book uses case studies to cogently support the reform of extradition in order to counteract egregious foreign criminal prosecutions and protect individual rights and justice.” —Paul Arnell, University Aberdeen, UK.
Introduction; Chapter One: Extradition and individual rights; Chapter Two: Extradition in practice: The welfare of extraditees; Chapter Three: Extradition in practice: The conduct of nations; Chapter Four: Key reforms; Chapter Five: Conclusion; References; Index