Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of the extradition treaties. Extradition treaties govern the surrender of fugitives from justice by the fugitive's State of residence to another State claiming criminal jurisdiction. Such treaties, being either bilateral agreements or multilateral conventions, are usually confined to rules fixing the preconditions for surrender and the exceptions to them. Sometimes provisions regarding extradition are embodied in a more comprehensive treaty on legal assistance between States in criminal matters in general or even legal assistance in the broadest sense, including assistance in civil, family, and criminal cases. International conventions aiming at the suppression of certain international crimes and obliging the States parties to either extradite or prosecute the alleged offenders refer to existing extradition treaties and may widen their application by providing that the crimes established by the international convention shall be regarded as extraditable crimes under existing extradition treaties; however, these international conventions are not extradition treaties themselves.
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