After 18 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 2021 date will be announced soon.

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 […]

The international Extradition expert group will meet again in Italy in June 2019 to investigate current worldwide developments in extradition law. The seminar will feature a roundtable interactive discussion with academic lawyers, practitioners, judges, prosecutors and law students & graduates with an interest for supranational criminal law. Participation in the seminar is […]

Soccer player Hakeem al-Araibi, a citizen of Bahrain who was sentenced in Thailand and faced being sent back to his native country, where he said he would be jailed and tortured, was released. He was then able to go back to Australia, where he plays in a team in Melbourne and has refugee […]

Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said the United States was “working on” extraditing Fethullah Gulen, the Muslim religious leader who is wanted in Turkey on charges that he instigated a failed coup that occurred in 2016. Mr. Gulen has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since the 1990s. Mr. Cavusoglu said that, during […]