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International Criminal Law: A Guide to U.S. Practice and Procedure. Antitrust, Securities, Extradition, Tax, Terrorism. Edited by Ved P. Nanda and M. Cherif Bassiouni. New York: Practising Law Institute, 1987. Pp. xiv, 546. Index.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Bruce Zagaris
Bruce Zagaris*
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Of the District of Columbia Bar
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 84 , Issue 4 , October 1990 , pp. 991 - 993
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1990

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References

1 For the early treatise, see M. C. Bassiouni & V. Nanda, A Treatise on International Criminal Law (2 vols. 1973).

2 One important decision upheld U.S. jurisdiction in the arrest of Fawaz Yunis, captured on a boat near Cyprus, and his subsequent conviction.

3 For a discussion of the securities enforcement cooperation agreements and the legislative changes, see Mann & Lustgarten, Internationalization of Insider Trading Enforcement—A Guide to Regulation and Cooperation, in White Collar Crime 1990, at 511–62 (ABA National Institute, 1990).

4 Congress amended the U.S. prisoner transfer treaty implementing legislation by enacting a new sec. 4106A to title 18 of the U.S. Code. See Pub. L. No. 100-690, §7101, 102 Stat. 4181, 4415 (1988); Abbell, Congress Amends Prisoner Transfer Treaty Implementing Legislation to Permit Transfer of Americans Convicted in Foreign Country Offenses Committed After October 31, 1987, Int’l Enforcement L. Rep., December 1988, at 416.

5 An important decision that upholds the discretion of the U.S. Attorney General not to issue substantive regulations governing international prisoner transfer decisions is Scalise v. Thorn-burgh, No. 88–2497 (7th Cir. Dec. 19, 1989). For a discussion of the implications of the case, see Zagaris, 7th Circuit Upholds Attorney General’s Discretion in Regulating Prisoner Transfers, Int’l Enforcement L. Rep., March 1990, at 125.