Extradition System (Revised Edition)

Author: Huang Feng
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Publish Date: 1997-12-01
Features: In this book, the author closely links "extradition" with "institution," aiming to explore and analyze the legal basis of relevant rules and their inherent relationship with the fundamental legal systems of various countries through the form of international extradition cooperation. The fundamental approach throughout the book is: the development of modern extradition norms has transformed extradition from a feature of political or diplomatic cooperation into one of international judicial cooperation; the entities involved in extradition cooperation are the judicial authorities and strictly law-abiding national administrative competent authorities; review, decision-making, and liaison activities related to extradition must adhere to statutory procedures and rules; therefore, extradition cooperation is not only regulated by specialized international legal norms but must also rely on corresponding domestic legal systems to make the former norms practically operable or specific. Thus, extradition should be a legal institution, an interdisciplinary one that integrates international law with domestic law, substantive law with procedural law.