Founder of tech firm “Autonomy” extradited to USA in criminal case

May 17, 2023 maffeistefano

British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch has been extradited to the US to face criminal charges over the $11bn sale of his firm Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard. Mr Lynch – once dubbed “Britain’s Bill Gates” after the Microsoft co-founder – will stand trial on charges including fraud, which he denies. He is […]
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Russian citizen accused of smuggling military tech escapes house arrest in Italy

May 17, 2023 maffeistefano

A Russian businessman facing extradition to the US escaped from house arrst in Italy and fled to Russia. Artem Uss was due to face charges in the US for shipping oil from Venezuela in breach of sanctions, and for bank fraud. The suspect left his home in Basiglio, on the outskirts of […]
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The 2023 edition of the seminar will be held on June 19/20 in Sarnico (Italy)

March 24, 2023 maffeistefano

This will be the VI edition of this seminar. All those with an academic and/or practical interest in extradition procedures and EAW are invited to attend.
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Annual Seminar on Extradition will resume in June 2022

April 28, 2021 maffeistefano

After 24 months of stop due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is now time to re-launch the annual seminar on Extradition and the European Arrest Warrant. The 2022 dates have just been announced: the seminar will be held at Lake Iseo on June 27-28. If you are interested in attending […]
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2020 edition of Annual Seminar on Extradition canceled

January 13, 2020 maffeistefano

The annual seminar on International Extradition and the European Arrest Warrant has attracted over 100 extradition experts since 2016 (programs in Oxford and Lake Iseo, Italy) and is now a well-established tradition for extradition experts around the world. In 2020, the seminar was canceled due to the COVID19 pandemic. It […]
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Maffei’s Book on International Extradition published in 2019

January 13, 2020 maffeistefano

The book includes a paper on the key concepts of extradition law and practice (double criminality, speciality principle, ne bis in idem, assurances) and the typical course of an international extradition case. It then outlines the 30 most famous cases of extradition in history (from Assange to Puidgemont, from Eichmann to Battisti). Dr Stefano Maffei is an academic lawyer at the University of Parma […]
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Case before European Court of Human Rights could delay Bailey’s extradition

January 9, 2020 maffeistefano

In June 2019, Ian Bailey was convicted by a Paris court for the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, a French film producer. Sophie Toscan du Plantier was murdered while on holiday in the west of County Cork in December 1996. Bailey was sentenced to 25 years in prison and […]
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Japan requests extradition of former-Nissan boss from Lebanon

January 7, 2020 maffeistefano

Carlos Ghosn, the former head of automobile giants Nissan and Renault, is arguably the most famous fugitive in 2020. Ghosn had been under house arrest in Japan after posting $14 million in bail, before making a dramatic and mysterious escape from the country in December 2019. He was awaiting trial on charges […]
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Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange arrested in London

April 11, 2019 maffeistefano

Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has been arrested -for failing to surrender to the court- at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. He stayed there for seven years, in order to avoid extradition to Sweden over a sexual assault case that has since been dropped. Ecuador’s president Lenin Moreno said it withdrew […]
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What is “international extradition”?

INTERNATIONAL EXTRADITION is the legal (multi-.faceted) process based on a treaty, reciprocity, comity, or national law, whereby one country (the requested or executing country), at the request of another country (the requesting or issuing country), grants to the latter the return of a person to face prosecution, stand trial, or serve out a given sentence. In theory, extraditable individuals will include those charged (or suspects awaiting a charge) with a criminal offense while proceedings are pending against them, those that have been tried and convicted in absentia,7 and those who have escaped an arrest warrant or other incarceration order at some point during the process. A distinction must be drawn between international extradition for the purpose of prosecution (often called extradition for accusation) and international extradition for the purpose of executing sentence (extradition for conviction).

What do we offer?

This portal is a growing forum for extradition lawyers and scholars. It offers updates on current extradition cases, access to multiple resources to legal practitioners involved in extradition proceedings. It also serves the purpose of promoting a yearly annual reunion of extradition lawyers from all over the world.