NCJ Number
91955
Editor(s)
R B Lillich
Date Published
1982
Length
297 pages
Annotation
This volume provides an overview of the conventional international law norms governing transnational terrorism and summaries of the multilateral extradition treaties and agreements as well as conventions relating to asylum.
Abstract
Part I contains the 13 major multilateral conventions and agreements designed to deal with aspects of international terrorism. After a brief editor's note, the complete text or the relevant articles of each instrument are presented, followed by a listing of the states parties, their declarations and reservations, United States action with respect to the agreement, and citations to any relevant United States cases. Some of the specific terrorist-related concerns targeted in the conventions are aircraft hijacking; crimes against internationally protected persons, including diplomatic agents: crimes against persons and related extortion that are of international significance; hostagetaking; genocide; and the physical protection of nuclear material. With respect to multilateral extradition agreements, summaries of which are contained in Part II of the volume along with the same material following the Part I agreements, the volume identifies extraditable offenses, provisions on political offenses, and any exclusions from the category of political offenses. Conventions relating to asylum, which are discussed in Part III, are categorized as general (Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees), the African Convention on Asylum, and inter-American conventions on asylum. The first appendix contains the 1937 League of Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of Terrorism and the 1972 draft convention which the United States submitted to the United Nations. The second appendix presents proposed conventions drafted by the International Law Association, the Procedural Aspects of International Law Institute, and the American Bar Association. The third appendix contains an alphabetical, country-by-country list of ratifications and accessions to all the agreements found in the volume. A subject index is also provided.