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Current International Legal Problems In The Pursuit Of Extradition Requests: The Practice Of Saudi Arabia, Ayedh Hadi Alotaibi Mar 2004

Current International Legal Problems In The Pursuit Of Extradition Requests: The Practice Of Saudi Arabia, Ayedh Hadi Alotaibi

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Extradition is an ancient legal practice which has in recent decades become both increasingly controversial and increasingly important. Traditionally, the controversies and exigencies of the extradition process have focused on the two sovereign states (sending state and receiving state) involved in the process. The third actor, the extraditee or subject of the process, was accorded comparatively little attention and almost nothing in the way of individual rights. The emergence of an international human rights movement in the aftermath of World war II encouraged a new focus on the extraditee as not merely a subject of the extradition process but as …


Sosa V. Alvarez-Machain - Restricting Access To Us Courts Under The Federal Tort Claims Act And The Alien Tort Statute: Reversing The Trend, Laura A. Cisneros Jan 2004

Sosa V. Alvarez-Machain - Restricting Access To Us Courts Under The Federal Tort Claims Act And The Alien Tort Statute: Reversing The Trend, Laura A. Cisneros

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To function with adequate predictability and efficiency, the international community must maintain orderly relations among its members. This necessarily requires that members develop international norms of behavior and accept a certain loss of their otherwise exclusive sovereignty. Nowhere has the enforcement of international norms been more pronounced than in the area of human rights. International human rights norms directly challenge conventional notions of exclusive state sovereignty and unilateral action. The United States has long been a motive force behind the international human rights movement, opening its federal courts to redress human rights violations committed domestically or abroad. Specifically, federal courts …