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Under Attack: Terrorism Risk Insurance Regulation, Alexia Brunet Marks
Under Attack: Terrorism Risk Insurance Regulation, Alexia Brunet Marks
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Scholarly debates over the September 11th attacks focus predominantly on high-profile issues, such as torture, preventive detention, interrogation, privacy, and surveillance. These debates have overshadowed the equally important and far-reaching issue of terrorism risk insurance, which not only involves billions of dollars, but provides powerful incentives to keep us safe. Developing a sound understanding of the market for terrorism risk insurance is essential to guiding the difficult determination of the appropriate balance between private and public responsibility for preventing and (when necessary) compensating for terrorism.
The attacks of September 11th represented one of the costliest insurance events in American history. …
An Unintended Casualty Of The War On Terror, Aya Gruber
An Unintended Casualty Of The War On Terror, Aya Gruber
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As the dust of the Bush administration's war on terror settles, casualties are starting to appear on the legal battlefield. The United States' human rights reputation and the Supreme Court's international influence lay wounded in the wake of U.S. policies that flouted international law by advocating torture, suborning indefinite detention, and erecting irregular tribunals. Through declining citation, the courts of the world are telling the Supreme Court that if it does not respect international and foreign law, international and foreign courts will not respect it. Some might object that the Supreme Court should not be lumped with the Bush administration …
Disappearing Government Information And The Internet's Public Domain, Susan Nevelow Mart
Disappearing Government Information And The Internet's Public Domain, Susan Nevelow Mart
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This article surveys the types and amounts of information that have been removed from the Internet since September 11th. Information has been removed in the name of national security as well as for reasons of seeming political expediency. After discussing the bases of some of the rationales for removing the information, and the legal underpinnings of continued access, the article suggests several forms of advocacy that could be used to return the information to the public's domain.