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The Long War, The Federal Courts, And The Necessity/Legality Paradox, Stephen I. Vladeck Mar 2009

The Long War, The Federal Courts, And The Necessity/Legality Paradox, Stephen I. Vladeck

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.


Boumediene And Lawfare, Tung Yin Mar 2009

Boumediene And Lawfare, Tung Yin

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.


Terrorist Detention: Directions For Reform, Benjamin J. Priester Mar 2009

Terrorist Detention: Directions For Reform, Benjamin J. Priester

University of Richmond Law Review

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Law V. National Security: When Lawyers Make Terrorism Policy, William G. Hyland Jr. Jan 2008

Law V. National Security: When Lawyers Make Terrorism Policy, William G. Hyland Jr.

Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business

Are lawyers strangling our government’s ability to fight the first war of the twenty-first century? Does judicial adventurism and the fear of litigation undermine the War Against Terrorism? In essence, is our national security apparatus overlawyered? This article analyzes how some lawyers have produced a synthetic “litigation culture” over the war on terror. It argues that litigation concerning electronic surveillance, interrogation and all manners of prisoner treatment has chilled counterintelligence since 9/11.