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The World Trade Center Disaster: How Terrorist Airline Attacks Can Affect The Legal, Economic, And Financial Conditions Of Airlines Under The Montreal Liability Agreement, Larry Moore, Rose M. Rubin, Justin N. Joy Dec 2007

The World Trade Center Disaster: How Terrorist Airline Attacks Can Affect The Legal, Economic, And Financial Conditions Of Airlines Under The Montreal Liability Agreement, Larry Moore, Rose M. Rubin, Justin N. Joy

Brigham Young University International Law & Management Review

No abstract provided.


Emergency Federalism: Calling On The States In Perilous Times, Adam M. Giuliano Dec 2007

Emergency Federalism: Calling On The States In Perilous Times, Adam M. Giuliano

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

The attacks of September 11 prompted a historic debate concerning terrorism and domestic emergency response. This ongoing dialogue has driven policy decisions touching upon both liberty and security concerns. Yet despite the enormous effort that has gone into the national response, the role of the sovereign states, and with it federalism, has received comparatively little attention. This Article explores the relevance of federalism within the context of the "War on Terror" and in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Acknowledging that theories of federalism developed elsewhere are insufficient, he outlines a doctrine of 'emergency federalism.' The author argues that the Framers …


Congress Has The Power To Enforce The Bill Of Rigths Against The Federal Government; Therefore Fisa Is Constitutional And The President's Terrorist Surveillance Program Is Illegal, Wilson R. Huhn Dec 2007

Congress Has The Power To Enforce The Bill Of Rigths Against The Federal Government; Therefore Fisa Is Constitutional And The President's Terrorist Surveillance Program Is Illegal, Wilson R. Huhn

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

The principal point of this Article is that Congress has plenary authority to enforce the Bill of Rights against the federal government. Although this precept is a fundamental one, neither the Supreme Court nor legal scholars have articulated this point in clear, simple, and direct terms. The Supreme Court does not have a monopoly on the Bill of Rights. Congress, too, has constitutional authority to interpret our rights and to enforce or enlarge them as against the actions of the federal government. Congress exercised its power to protect the constitutional rights of American citizens when it enacted the Foreign Intelligence …


Asset Freezing Of Islamic Charities Under The International Economic Emergency Powers Act: A Fourth Amendment Analysis, David Klass Sep 2007

Asset Freezing Of Islamic Charities Under The International Economic Emergency Powers Act: A Fourth Amendment Analysis, David Klass

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

No abstract provided.


National Security, The Law, The Meda: Shaping Public Perceptions, Linda Robinson Aug 2007

National Security, The Law, The Meda: Shaping Public Perceptions, Linda Robinson

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Domestic Security And Maintenance Of Liberty: Striking The Balance, Paul Mchale Aug 2007

Domestic Security And Maintenance Of Liberty: Striking The Balance, Paul Mchale

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


A Soldier's Blog: Balancing Service Members' Personal Rights Vs. National Security Interests, Tatum H. Lytle Jun 2007

A Soldier's Blog: Balancing Service Members' Personal Rights Vs. National Security Interests, Tatum H. Lytle

Federal Communications Law Journal

This Note examines the competing interests between ensuring military personnel's freedom of speech while protecting national security interests. The Author recognizes the necessity of protecting national security interests but emphasizes that military personnel's rights to free speech must be protected as long as such speech poses no threat to military security. In conclusion, clearer protections must be implemented to protect military personnel's right to free speech.


Risky Business: Corruption, Fraud, Terrorism, & Other Threats To Global Business, Stuart Poole-Robb, Alan Bailey May 2007

Risky Business: Corruption, Fraud, Terrorism, & Other Threats To Global Business, Stuart Poole-Robb, Alan Bailey

Brigham Young University International Law & Management Review

No abstract provided.


"Quotidian" Judges Vs. Al-Qaeda, Mark S. Davies Apr 2007

"Quotidian" Judges Vs. Al-Qaeda, Mark S. Davies

Michigan Law Review

In Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts, University of Chicago law professors Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule invite those of us worried about the American response to al-Qaeda to consider the proper role of judges. Judges, of course, are not being dispatched to the hills of Pakistan nor are they securing our borders or buildings. But as the executive seeks to implement a range of new policies in the name of protecting us from al-Qaeda, the judicial treatment of these policies shapes the American response. Posner and Vermeule suggest a kind of Hippocratic view of …


Dying Like Men, Falling Like Princes: Reflections On The War On Terror, Edward Rial Armstrong Apr 2007

Dying Like Men, Falling Like Princes: Reflections On The War On Terror, Edward Rial Armstrong

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

The attacks of September 11, 2001 brought home the point that even a mighty nation like ours is vulnerable to injury, and that even a goliath can sometimes be dealt a serious blow by a much smaller opponent. Faced with a world in which individuals can wield incredible destructive power and in which economic weakness can cause an empire to collapse despite its military might, what types of policies and laws should we adopt to confront these realities? In particular, what types of laws and policies should we adopt to deal with the threat of terrorism? This article proceeds on …


Echelon's Effect: The Obsolescence Of The U.S. Foreign Intelligence Legal Regime, Matt Bedan Mar 2007

Echelon's Effect: The Obsolescence Of The U.S. Foreign Intelligence Legal Regime, Matt Bedan

Federal Communications Law Journal

The technological progress of the past thirty years has vastly increased the surveillance capabilities of the global intelligence community. At the same time, the law governing the use of this technology and its consequent information has remained largely static. This lack of adjustment, for better or worse, has rendered federal foreign intelligence surveillance law irrelevant in many respects.


The State Secrets Privilege And The Abdication Of Oversight, Jared Perkins Mar 2007

The State Secrets Privilege And The Abdication Of Oversight, Jared Perkins

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

No abstract provided.


Biometrics: Weighing Convenience And National Security Against Your Privacy, Lauren D. Adkins Jan 2007

Biometrics: Weighing Convenience And National Security Against Your Privacy, Lauren D. Adkins

Michigan Telecommunications & Technology Law Review

The biometric identifier relies on an individual's unique biological information such as a hand, iris, fingerprint, facial or voice print. When used for verification purposes, a "one-to-one" match is generated in under one second. Biometric technology can substantially improve national security by identifying and verifying individuals in a number of different contexts, providing security in ways that exceed current identification technology and limiting access to areas where security breaches are especially high, such as airport tarmacs and critical infrastructure facilities. At the same time, a legitimate public concern exists concerning the misuse of biometric technology to invade or violate personal …


The Unresolved Equation Of Espionage And International Law, A. John Radsan Jan 2007

The Unresolved Equation Of Espionage And International Law, A. John Radsan

Michigan Journal of International Law

This Essay, in order to offer up something to that appetite, is divided into five parts. After this introduction, the author, A. John Radsan, describes a Hegelian impulse, the perpetual drive to find unity in disorder. That impulse, for better or worse, creates the train and the track for many of the academy's journeys. Radsan then defines what is meant by "intelligence activities" for purposes of this Essay, after which Radsan surveys the scholarship that existed before this symposium on the relationship between espionage and international law. As the number of pages written on this topic suggests, scholarship on espionage …


Ten Questions: Responses Of John S. Baker, Jr., John S. Baker Jr. Jan 2007

Ten Questions: Responses Of John S. Baker, Jr., John S. Baker Jr.

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Human Rights And The War On Terror Second Edition: Introduction, Jack Donnelly Jan 2007

Human Rights And The War On Terror Second Edition: Introduction, Jack Donnelly

Human Rights & Human Welfare

“9/11 changed everything.” Not really. In fact, there has been far more continuity than change over the past six years in both international and domestic politics. Nonetheless, human rights often have been harmed—although not by terrorism but by “the war on terror.”


The Dark Side Of Counterterrorism Jan 2007

The Dark Side Of Counterterrorism

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Ghost Detainees: Does The Isolation And Interrogation Of Detainees Violate Common Article 3 Of The Geneva Conventions?, Thomas F. Berndt, Alethea M. Huyser Jan 2007

Ghost Detainees: Does The Isolation And Interrogation Of Detainees Violate Common Article 3 Of The Geneva Conventions?, Thomas F. Berndt, Alethea M. Huyser

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Headscarf As Threat: A Comparison Of German And U.S. Legal Discourses, Robert A. Kahn Jan 2007

The Headscarf As Threat: A Comparison Of German And U.S. Legal Discourses, Robert A. Kahn

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

This Article compares how U.S. and German judges conceptualize the harm the headscarf poses to society. The examples are the 2003 Ludin case, in which the German Federal Constitutional Court held that the civil service, in the absence of state regulation, could not reject a woman from a civil service teaching position solely because she would not remove her headscarf while teaching, and State v. Freeman, in which a Florida court held that a woman could not pose for a driver's license photograph wearing a garment (the niqab) that covered all of her face except her eyes. While judges and …


Denuclearization Of The Korean Peninsula: Recent Agreements And Lessons From The Past, Jared M. Lee Jan 2007

Denuclearization Of The Korean Peninsula: Recent Agreements And Lessons From The Past, Jared M. Lee

Florida State University Journal of Transnational Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Title Page Jan 2007

Title Page

Human Rights & Human Welfare

Title page for the 2007 supplement to the Human Rights and the War on Terror topical research digest.


United States Foreign Policy: Liberty And Security?, Jessi Schimmel Jan 2007

United States Foreign Policy: Liberty And Security?, Jessi Schimmel

Human Rights & Human Welfare

Prior to September 11, 2001, the United States had the reputation of being a leader in the field of human rights. As information of torture and abuse in Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo Bay, and secret CIA detention centers has surfaced, however, the image of America has changed from human rights champion to that of violator. In large part, the international community of scholars and activists has come to deride the foreign policy of the United States as misguided and out of balance with the threats the country faces. However, there are also plenty of outspoken defenders who believe that the tactics …


Human Rights Challenges In Georgia, Latife Bulur Jan 2007

Human Rights Challenges In Georgia, Latife Bulur

Human Rights & Human Welfare

Since the Rose Revolution of 2003, human rights problems in Georgia have been improving. Economically and socially, Georgia has been reaching milestones as it continues to improve different facets of the state. In contrast to past research, current writing on Georgia has become increasingly more positive. Many pieces written on Georgia tell of a growing and thriving country that has gone to great lengths to strengthen national pride and to gain positive global recognition.


Human Rights And The War On Terror: Complete 2005 - 2007 Topical Research Digest, Jack Donnelly, Simon Amajuru, Susannah Compton, Robin Davey, Syd Dillard, Amanda Donahoe, Charles Hess, Sydney Fisher, Kelley Laird, Victoria Lowdon, Chris Maggard, Alexandra Nichols, Travis Ning, Toni Panetta, Greg Sanders, James Smithwick, Angela Woolliams, Chris Saeger, Sarah Bania-Dobyns, Eric Dibbern, David Gillespie, Latife Bulur, Katie Friesen, Arika Long, Arianna Nowakowski, Joel R. Pruce Jan 2007

Human Rights And The War On Terror: Complete 2005 - 2007 Topical Research Digest, Jack Donnelly, Simon Amajuru, Susannah Compton, Robin Davey, Syd Dillard, Amanda Donahoe, Charles Hess, Sydney Fisher, Kelley Laird, Victoria Lowdon, Chris Maggard, Alexandra Nichols, Travis Ning, Toni Panetta, Greg Sanders, James Smithwick, Angela Woolliams, Chris Saeger, Sarah Bania-Dobyns, Eric Dibbern, David Gillespie, Latife Bulur, Katie Friesen, Arika Long, Arianna Nowakowski, Joel R. Pruce

Human Rights & Human Welfare

“9/11 changed everything.” Not really. In fact, there has been far more continuity than change over the past six years in both international and domestic politics. Nonetheless, human rights often have been harmed—although not by terrorism but by “the war on terror.”


Secrets And Lies: Intelligence Activities And The Rule Of Law In Times Of Crisis, Simon Chesterman Jan 2007

Secrets And Lies: Intelligence Activities And The Rule Of Law In Times Of Crisis, Simon Chesterman

Michigan Journal of International Law

This Article will consider generally the prospects for an approach to intelligence activities based on the rule of law, focusing on the problem of covertness. In particular, it will examine the debate over how law should deal with crises, epitomized by the "ticking time-bomb" hypothetical. On the one hand, some call for a pragmatic recognition that, in extremis, public officials may be required to act outside the law and should seek after-the-fact ratification of their "extra-legal measures." On the other hand, others argue that the embrace of "extra-legal measures" misconceives the rule of law, underestimates the capacity of a …


State Intelligence Gathering: Conflict Of Laws, Charles H.B. Garraway Jan 2007

State Intelligence Gathering: Conflict Of Laws, Charles H.B. Garraway

Michigan Journal of International Law

This Article begins with an examination of the development of the law of war (Part II) and human rights law (Part III) before looking at the differing legal categories of armed conflict (Part IV). It then examines the applicability of human rights law in situations of armed conflict (Part V) and the increasing complexity of defining violence, whether as armed conflict or otherwise (Part VI). The Article proceeds with an examination of the overlap between the law of war and human rights law (Part VII) and the risk of divergence that this overlap causes (Part VIII). Finally, it seeks to …


Response Is Local, Relief Is Not: The Pervasive Impact Of Agro Terrorism, Asha M. George Jan 2007

Response Is Local, Relief Is Not: The Pervasive Impact Of Agro Terrorism, Asha M. George

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Agro terrorism is a threat facing the public today. National response systems are not yet able to perform efficiently and effectively to address this threat. Any locality can be targeted, and the immediate response will come from local entities, regardless of how adequately prepared they are to respond. Knowing that acts of agro terrorism are both expected and feasible today, we must alter our prevention, deterrence, preparedness, detection, response, attribution, recovery, and mitigation programs and base them on a better understanding of the threat. There are a number of things we can do in advance of agro terrorism, none of …


Special Tactics For A Secret War Jan 2007

Special Tactics For A Secret War

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Balance Of Power: The Supreme Court's Decision On Military Commissions And The Competing Interests In The War On Terror, Josiah Ramsey Fricton Jan 2007

The Balance Of Power: The Supreme Court's Decision On Military Commissions And The Competing Interests In The War On Terror, Josiah Ramsey Fricton

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Power Of Information: The Clash Between The Public's Right To Know And The Government's Security Concerns In A Post-September 11th World, Adam S. Davis Jan 2007

The Power Of Information: The Clash Between The Public's Right To Know And The Government's Security Concerns In A Post-September 11th World, Adam S. Davis

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.