Academic

Cernic on Saadi v. Italy

By Lawrence Solum

Jernej Letnar Cernic (University of Aberdeen - School of Law) has posted National Security and Expulsion to a Risk of Torture (Edinburgh Law Review, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 486-490, September 2008) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract:

In Saadi v Italy, the European Court of Human Rights held that article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights prohibits expulsion of individuals to states where they would face a "real risk" of torture, inhuman or degrading treatment. This article analyses the ECHR's reasoning.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on December 11, 2008 (boomark / email).