Jun 22, 2023 | Edition 35, Perspectives
A perspective from the Special Tribunal for Lebanon is to ensure the rule of law is subordinate to no-one, and nothing. It met a number of attempts to the contrary. Lebanon, with a population of nearly seven million, is the coastal state demarking the eastern end of...
Jun 8, 2022 | China, Edition 29, Editions, Extradition, Human Rights, Perspectives, Rule of Law
In 1606 in the République, Jean Bodin argued that it was wrong to render up the guiltless to a sovereign who wished to punish them, but right to render up the guilty. Today guilt alone is insufficient for extradition. The 1989 judgment of the European Court of Human...