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Treaties are not laws.

• arjunnarayan 11y ago
  > Treaties are not laws. Well, I don't know what treaties are to the United Kingdom and Sweden, so I can't speak to the relevant matter, but there is a general sense (insofar as "international law" can be thought of as an actual concrete thing) that treaties are laws. To the United States, for example, treaties are explicitly treated as laws (see http://law.justia.com/constitution/us/article-2/18-treaties-as-law-of-the-land.html http://law.justia.com/constitution/us/article-2/18-treaties-...). Most other countries take their treaty obligations very seriously, although the actual mechanics depend on each country's legal/political system.
• maus42 11y ago
  In Sweden, it looks like these treaties at least are very similar to laws: extradiction would be handled by their judicial system and the decision would be ultimately up to their supreme court. Source: http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&artikel=6227734 http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&art...