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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]