Musings on India, the law, and policy
Posted in Uncategorized on May 31st, 2011
For the past few days in the news, readers would have noticed that the issues of extradition of Warren Anderson (in India) and Bosnian Serb Radko Mladic. I wish to briefly expound the law behind extradition from an international legal perspective. First, it must be remembered that extradition means the sending of those accused of [...]
Posted in Human Rights on Jun 7th, 2010
Over at the Kampala Review Conference delegates from aroud the world are in the process of incorporating the international crime of “aggression” into the roster of indictable offences already under the Rome Statute (genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity). The implications of such an insertion are significant, and in this post I am going to [...]