The Making of Modern International Extradition Law

Abstract

Joanna Harrington traces the development of modern extradition law back to the 19th century. Against a background of interactions between different states legal systems, the impact of peace treaties, the impact of the law of asylum, the growing use of multilateral treaties and the importance of counter-terrorism law, she conducts us on a tour of the principal flash-points in extradition, and the measures such as the political offence exception, and exceptions to this exception, taken to defuse them.