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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]

Lockerbie Cases (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya v United Kingdom and United States of America)

Andreas Paulus, Anne Dienelt

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law [MPIL]

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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]
Article last updated:
March 2010

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 08 October 2024

Subject(s):
Aut dedere aut judicare — Compensation

Published under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law under the direction of Professor Anne Peters (2021–) and Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum (2004–2020). 

1 On 21 December 1988 270 people were killed by the explosion of a bomb bringing down Pan Am flight 103 over the small town Lockerbie in Scotland. The Lockerbie Cases before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) deal with the request made by the United States of America (‘US’) and the United Kingdom (‘UK’) to Libya to surrender two Libyan citizens, Abdelbaset Aliu Mohmed Al Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, who were charged by the British Lord Advocate and a US Grand Jury for their involvement in the case. The two suspects were alleged to be intelligence...
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