Ian Warren - Böcker

This book uses several case studies to demonstrate current problems with international extradition. These include political issues, time delays, jurisdictional problems, and conflict between surrender and the human rights of extraditees. The normative assumptions underpinning extradition ensure these procedures are more likely to prioritise international comity between nation states, rather than individual human rights protections. This creates a system with limited judicial relief for extraditees that require extensive proof of high human rights thresholds, as well as a prominent rule of non-inquiry, restrictive evidence regulations, and deference to the executive. The book argues that a defendant-centred approach to extradition reform is needed that prioritises a right to fairness as a core value for promoting global justice. This includes considering changes to enable greater post-extradition monitoring of extradited people and broadening rules for extraditees to submit evidence to support a claim against surrender. New and more viable extradition alternatives also involve transferring evidence to shift the trial to the location where most of the offending activity occurred and sentencing in the extraditee’s home jurisdiction. These proposals aim to counter the current unequal levels of authority that favour the power of both the requesting and requested state over the rights of the individual.

Today, we understand that change in software systems is inevitable. There are many systems in operation, however, which are prohibitively expensive to change. This is a serious problem since a significant number of them are business-critical. This book describes a method, Renaissance, which aims to recover control over these legacy systems. The method focuses on reengineering as a means to transform legacy systems to systems which are responsive to change. The authors describe how to manage evolution projects, from conception through to system deployment, with consideration to technical, business, and organisational factors. The Renaissance of Legacy Systems address two fundamental issues: What is the best form of evolution for your legacy system? Once identified, how should you implement the evolution strategy? In answering these questions, this text helps you to understand the problems of reengineering and provides practical advice for managing evolution projects.

This edited collection brings together leading scholars to comparatively investigate national security, surveillance and terror in the early 21st century in two major western jurisdictions, Canada and Australia.