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Extradition, politics, and human rights / Christopher H. Pyle.

Title
Extradition, politics, and human rights / Christopher H. Pyle.
Author
Pyle, Christopher H.
Publication
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, C2001.

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Description
x, 445 p.; 26 cm.
Subject
  • Extradition > United States > History
  • Deportation > United States > History
  • Human rights > United States
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-423) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- A nation of asylum -- The extradition of Thomas Nash -- The martyrdom of Jonathan Robbins -- Extradition and slavery -- First principles -- Offenses of a political character -- Judicial primacy -- The uprising test and illiberal revolts -- Noninquiry -- Cold War justice -- Police wars -- Exempting terrorists -- Urban guerrillas versus army death squads -- Highjacking to freedom : extradite or punish? -- Gutting the political offense exception -- Deportation to achieve extradition -- Retributive justice and the second Artuković case -- Extradition as a substitute for deportation : getting Ivan -- Ivan who? Getting the wrong man -- The law of stolen people I. -- The law of stolen people II. -- Rethinking extradition.
ISBN
  • 1566398223 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1566398231 (pb : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^00039283^
OCLC
43851543
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library