Constitutional Challenges to the European Arrest Warrant

This book is about the judgments of the supreme courts of a number of Member States which determine constitutionality of some parts of implementing legislation transporting the EU Framework Decision on the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) into national law. The Framework Decision, adopted in June 2002, seeks to change the mechanism by which individuals ought for trial or punishment in one Member State, but who arepresent in another Member State, are made available to the Member State which seeks to try or punish them. This mechanism has traditionally been called extradition and has been the subject of international agreements. According to the Framework Decision, individuals, including nationals of the state, must be surrendered to the authorities of other Member States for trial or punishment in respect of a specified list of offences on a warrant issued by the authorities of the seeking state. The Framework Decision is revolutionary in international criminal law.Guild, Elspeth is the author of 'Constitutional Challenges to the European Arrest Warrant', published 2006 under ISBN 9789058501844 and ISBN 9058501841.