Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1986
Abstract
The Supplementary Convention to the Extradition Treaty between the Government of the United States of American and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, was signed on June 25, 1985, and transmitted to the U.S. Senate on July 17, 1985. This article will focus on the portion of the supplementary treaty which effectively eliminates the political offense exception, and on the statement made by the Legal Adviser to the Department of State, the honorable Judge Abraham D. Sofaer, made in favor of the Supplementary Treaty, on August 1, 1985. This article suggests that approval of the convention was a mistake and criticizes this Convention’s evisceration of the political offense exception and recommends that the supplementary treaty, in its present form, not be approved.
Publication Citation
15 Denv. J. Int'l L. & Pol'y 109 (1986).
Recommended Citation
Blakesley, Christopher L., "The Evisceration of the Political Offense Exception to Extradition" (1986). Scholarly Works. 321.
https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/facpub/321
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