Yvette Foo presented her paper discussing the ASEAN Treaty on Extradition
Yvette Foo presented her paper discussing the ASEAN Treaty on Extradition as a reflection of the bloc’s maturing normative and legal development in transnational crime cooperation at the Asian Legal History Conference, hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Her paper presents a historiography of the numerous bilateral and multilateral arrangements, meetings, and relevant ASEAN instruments that prepared the region for a binding legal treaty on extradition. Adopting a doctrinal approach, and with reference to Acharya and Tan’s seminal works on ASEAN normative and legalisation work, it studies three decades-worth of cooperation, from the 1990s to 2005, 2005 to 2015, and 2015 to 2025: each representing a heightened level of confidence within the region to engage in extradition cooperation. In doing so, the paper situates the ATE as a compelling case-study evidencing ASEAN’s increasingly progressive, but still cautious, movement toward deeper security integration.
