# How does national law work internationally. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 7, 2008, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-national-law-work-internationally/462465 "2008-09-07T08:41:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-national-law-work-internationally/462465/21 "2008-09-08T15:51:36Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Your citizenship. and see [http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/94-166.pdf](http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/94-166.pdf) As others have indicated, extradition is a creature of treaty. Most extradition treaties require double criminality. [International Criminal Law - Ilias Bantekas, Susan Nash - Google Books](http://books.google.com/books?id=q_SLzKU81QwC&pg=RA1-PA181&lpg=RA1-PA181&dq=extradition+double+criminality&source=web&ots=nL7YWEnmOl&sig=nmzZYXGIHDm5GA8wdyMOVr3NXGg&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result) So extradition and criminal jurisdiction are not coterminous. > **[In international waters, are you beyond the reach of the law?](https://www.straightdope.com/21343387/in-international-waters-are-you-beyond-the-reach-of-the-law)** > > A STAFF REPORT FROM THE STRAIGHT DOPE SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD To the OP: It’s important to distinguish between these two criminal concepts and the broader concept of civil personal jurisdiction. Plenty of foreign nationals get sued in the U.S. for a variety of activities. Whether they are subject to personal jurisdiction depends on a series of factors. See [Home](http://www.wisbar.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Wisconsin_Lawyer&template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&contentid=49218) ---
**Author:** ![Westrogothia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@Westrogothia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Westrogothia)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-national-law-work-internationally/462465/22 "2008-09-08T16:09:31Z")
Allthough Im not a legal expert. Sex tourism laws doesnt sound applicable in this hypotethical situation. ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-national-law-work-internationally/462465/23 "2008-09-08T16:16:52Z")
> [@Huerta88](#): > > It was my impression that they generally **would not** do so, on First Amendment and policy grounds, given that English libel law places the burden of proving a “truth defense” on the defendant. See, e.g., [http://www.uniset.ca/other/css/877FSupp1.html](http://www.uniset.ca/other/css/877FSupp1.html) for an example of a court refusing to enforce such a judgment on public policy grounds. ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-national-law-work-internationally/462465/24 "2008-09-08T16:25:50Z")
> [@Huerta88](#): > > [hijack] I’d look into that a bit more closely. The U.S. has a similar precedent making it a-okay to videotape shows off of your television, for personal backup/re-viewing use. > > * * * > > And yet it remains quite illegal to bittorrent the same show – the precedent (at least in the U.S.) is very specific to your television and VCR (and, I guess now, DVR). Actually, it’s a bit more complicated than that. See, [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7941823&postcount=9](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7941823&postcount=9) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-national-law-work-internationally/462465.md?page=1)