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Full-Text Articles in Law
Indefinite Detention And Antiterrorism Laws: Balancing Security And Human Rights, Joanne M. Sweeny
Indefinite Detention And Antiterrorism Laws: Balancing Security And Human Rights, Joanne M. Sweeny
Pace Law Review
This article does more than describe British and American anti-terrorism laws; it shows how those laws go through conflicted government branches and the bargains struck to create the anti-terrorism laws that exist today. Instead of taking these laws as given, this Article explains why they exist. More specifically, this article focuses on the path anti-terrorism legislation followed in the United States and the United Kingdom, with particular focus on each country’s ability (or lack thereof) to indefinitely detain suspected non-citizen terrorists. Both countries’ executives sought to have that power and both were limited by the legislatures and courts but in …
The Accidental Terrorists: Excludable Aliens Who Slip Across U.S. Borders, Susan M. Schreck
The Accidental Terrorists: Excludable Aliens Who Slip Across U.S. Borders, Susan M. Schreck
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
The Al Bahlul Argument: Article Iii, Conspiracy, And Precepts Of International Law, Peter Margulies
The Al Bahlul Argument: Article Iii, Conspiracy, And Precepts Of International Law, Peter Margulies
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Democracy's Struggle Against Terrorism: The Powers Of Military Commanders To Decide Upon The Demolition Of Houses, The Imposition Of Curfews, Blockades, Encirclements And The Declaration Of An Area As A Closed Military Area, Emanuel Gross
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
Legalizing Assassination? Terrorism, The Central Intelligence Agency, And International Law, Daniel B. Pickard
Legalizing Assassination? Terrorism, The Central Intelligence Agency, And International Law, Daniel B. Pickard
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
Reply To Steve On Al Bahlul, The “Law Of War,” And Article Iii, Peter Margulies
Reply To Steve On Al Bahlul, The “Law Of War,” And Article Iii, Peter Margulies
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Balancing National Security Policy: Why Congress Must Assert Its Constitutional Check On Executive Power, Rebecca Lightle
Balancing National Security Policy: Why Congress Must Assert Its Constitutional Check On Executive Power, Rebecca Lightle
Florida State University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Article Iii, The Framers, And Al Bahlul: A Reply To Steve, Peter Margulies
Article Iii, The Framers, And Al Bahlul: A Reply To Steve, Peter Margulies
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Revamping International Securites Laws To Break The Financial Infrastructure Of Global Terrorism, Sireesha Chenmolu
Revamping International Securites Laws To Break The Financial Infrastructure Of Global Terrorism, Sireesha Chenmolu
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
Rogue States, Weapons Of Mass Destruction, And Terrorism: Was Security Council Approval Necessary For The Invasion Of Iraq?, Jason Pedigo
Rogue States, Weapons Of Mass Destruction, And Terrorism: Was Security Council Approval Necessary For The Invasion Of Iraq?, Jason Pedigo
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
International Law And The Nuclear Threat In Kashmir: A Proposal For A U.S.-Led Resolution To The Dispute Under Un Authority, Billy Merck
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
The Expansion Of Executive Powers In Response To The Threat Of Bioterrorism Against Individuals And Agribusiness, Samuel W. Bettwy
The Expansion Of Executive Powers In Response To The Threat Of Bioterrorism Against Individuals And Agribusiness, Samuel W. Bettwy
Samuel W Bettwy
This paper examines and compares, in historical context, the expansion of governmental authority in response to threats of bioterrorism, one of which is aimed directly at people, the other of which is aimed directly at agribusiness. The examination reveals that there is a historical, natural tendency of the executive branch to expand its powers and that the legislative and judicial branches tend to defer to the executive branch during emergencies. The comparison reveals that, although there is such a natural attempt by the executive branch to expand its powers, such expansion has yielded more to concerns over individual rights and …
Al Bahlul And Article Iii: A Reply To Marty And Steve, Peter Margulies, Peter Margulies
Al Bahlul And Article Iii: A Reply To Marty And Steve, Peter Margulies, Peter Margulies
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Bahlul And The Power Of Congress To Define International Law, Peter Margulies
Bahlul And The Power Of Congress To Define International Law, Peter Margulies
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Military Commissions In America? Domestic Liberty Implications Of The Military Commissions Act Of 2006, Sean Riordan
Military Commissions In America? Domestic Liberty Implications Of The Military Commissions Act Of 2006, Sean Riordan
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Abstention, Balancing The Equities, And Armed Conflict In Al-Nashiri: A Reply To Steve Vladeck And Kevin Jon Heller, Peter Margulies
Abstention, Balancing The Equities, And Armed Conflict In Al-Nashiri: A Reply To Steve Vladeck And Kevin Jon Heller, Peter Margulies
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Al-Nashiri, The Cole Bombing, And The Start Of The Conflict With Al-Qaeda, Peter Margulies
Al-Nashiri, The Cole Bombing, And The Start Of The Conflict With Al-Qaeda, Peter Margulies
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Federal Witness Protection Program Revisited And Compared: Reshaping An Old Weapon To Meet New Challenges In The Global Crime Fighting Effort, Raneta Lawson Mack
The Federal Witness Protection Program Revisited And Compared: Reshaping An Old Weapon To Meet New Challenges In The Global Crime Fighting Effort, Raneta Lawson Mack
University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review
No abstract provided.
What Will It Take? Terrorism, Mass Murder, Gang Violence, And Suicides: The American Way, Or Do We Strive For A Better Way?, Katherine L. Record, Lawrence O. Gostin
What Will It Take? Terrorism, Mass Murder, Gang Violence, And Suicides: The American Way, Or Do We Strive For A Better Way?, Katherine L. Record, Lawrence O. Gostin
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
The assertion that access to firearms makes us safe, rather than increases the likelihood that oneself or a family member will die, is contradicted by a large body of evidence. Gunshots kill more than 30,000 Americans each year. Homicide accounts for approximately one-third of these deaths, with the remainder involving suicides and accidental gun discharges. In fact, firearms put us at greater risk of death than participating in war; in four months, as many Americans were shot dead in the United States as have died fighting in Iraq for an entire decade. Given these grim statistics, it would be reasonable …
A Regime In Need Of Balance: The Un Counter-Terrorism Regimes Of Security And Human Rights, Isaac Kfir
A Regime In Need Of Balance: The Un Counter-Terrorism Regimes Of Security And Human Rights, Isaac Kfir
University of Miami National Security & Armed Conflict Law Review
Since 9/11, the UN’s counter-‐terrorism regime has developed two distinct approaches to combating international terrorism. The Security Council follows a traditional security doctrine that focuses on how to best protect states from the threat posed by international terrorists. This is largely due to the centrality of the state in Security Council thinking and attitudes. On the other hand, the General Assembly and the various UN human rights organs, influenced by the human security doctrine, have taken a more holistic, human rights-‐based approach to the threat of international terrorism. This paper offers a review of how the dichotomy above affects the …
The Difference Prevention Makes: Regulating Preventive Justice, David Cole
The Difference Prevention Makes: Regulating Preventive Justice, David Cole
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States and many other countries have adopted a ‘‘paradigm of prevention,’’ employing a range of measures in an attempt to prevent future terrorist attacks. This includes the use of pre textual charges for preventive detention, the expansion of criminal liability to prohibit conduct that precedes terrorism, and expansion of surveillance at home and abroad. Politicians and government officials often speak of prevention as if it is an unqualified good. Everyone wants to prevent the next terrorist attack, after all. And many preventive initiatives, especially where they are not coercive and …
Special Administrative Measures: An Example Of Counterterror Excesses And Their Roots In U.S. Criminal Justice, Francesca Laguardia
Special Administrative Measures: An Example Of Counterterror Excesses And Their Roots In U.S. Criminal Justice, Francesca Laguardia
Department of Justice Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
This article examines the creation and implementation of pretrial Special Administrative Measures [SAMs], a version of pretrial solitary confinement now used most often to confine terror suspects in the federal criminal justice system. Through an in-depth archival study, this article brings attention to the importance of 20th-century criminal justice trends to the 21st-century response to the threat of terrorism, including an increasingly preventive focus and decreasing judicial checks on executive action. The findings suggest that practices believed to be excessive responses to the threat of terrorism are in fact a natural outgrowth of late modern criminal justice.
Country Report On Counterterrorism: United States Of America, Sudha Setty
Country Report On Counterterrorism: United States Of America, Sudha Setty
Faculty Scholarship
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, led to profound changes in societal viewpoints, political agendas, and the legal authorization to combat terrorism. The United States continues to struggle with keeping its population safe while maintaining the principles of democracy and the rule of law essential to the nation’s character. The U.S. response to terrorism has been multifaceted and expansive, reflective of the U.S. role in global security; debate over these matters will continue for the foreseeable future.
This report, prepared for the American Society of Comparative Law, offers summary, analysis and critique of many aspects of counterterrorism law, including …
Targeted Killings And The Interest Convergence Dilemma, Sudha Setty
Targeted Killings And The Interest Convergence Dilemma, Sudha Setty
Faculty Scholarship
In the 1980s, Professor Derrick Bell posited a theory of interest convergence as part of his critical race theory work, arguing that the major strides forward in civil rights law and policy that benefited African Americans in the 1950s and 1960s only occurred because of the perceived benefits of those changes to white elites during that time. In Bell’s view, it was only at the point at which the interests of powerful whites converged with those of marginalized racial minorities that significant changes in civil rights law could occur.
Twelve years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, numerous …
Special Administrative Measures And The War On Terror: When Do Extreme Pretrial Detention Measures Offend The Constitution?, Andrew Dalack
Special Administrative Measures And The War On Terror: When Do Extreme Pretrial Detention Measures Offend The Constitution?, Andrew Dalack
Michigan Journal of Race and Law
Our criminal justice system is founded upon a belief that one is innocent until proven guilty. This belief is what foists the burden of proving a person’s guilt upon the government and belies a statutory presumption in favor of allowing a defendant to remain free pending trial at the federal level. Though there are certainly circumstances in which a federal magistrate judge may—and sometimes must—remand a defendant to jail pending trial, it is well-settled that pretrial detention itself inherently prejudices the quality of a person’s defense. In some cases, a defendant’s pretrial conditions become so onerous that they become punitive …
Surveillance, Speech Suppression And Degradation Of The Rule Of Law In The “Post-Democracy Electronic State”, David Barnhizer
Surveillance, Speech Suppression And Degradation Of The Rule Of Law In The “Post-Democracy Electronic State”, David Barnhizer
David Barnhizer
None of us can claim the quality of original insight achieved by Alexis de Tocqueville in his early 19th Century classic Democracy in America in his observation that the “soft” repression of democracy was unlike that in any other political form. It is impossible to deny that we in the US, the United Kingdom and Western Europe are experiencing just such a “gentle” drift of the kind that Tocqueville describes, losing our democratic integrity amid an increasingly “pretend” democracy. He explained: “[T]he supreme power [of government] then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society …
The Trickle-Down War, Rosa Brooks
The Trickle-Down War, Rosa Brooks
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The history of the European nation-state, wrote political sociologist Charles Tilly, is inextricably bound up with the history of warfare. To oversimplify Tilly’s nuanced and complex arguments, the story goes something like this: As power-holders (originally bandits and local strongmen) sought to expand their power, they needed capital to pay for weapons, soldiers and supplies. The need for capital and new recruits drove the creation of taxation systems and census mechanisms, and the need for more effective systems of taxation and recruitment necessitated better roads, better communications and better record keeping. This in turn enabled the creation of larger and …
Pre-Crime Restraints: The Explosion Of Targeted, Non-Custodial Prevention, Jennifer Daskal
Pre-Crime Restraints: The Explosion Of Targeted, Non-Custodial Prevention, Jennifer Daskal
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
This Article exposes the ways in which noncustodial pre-crime restraints have proliferated over the past decade, focusing in particular on three notable examples — terrorism-related financial sanctions, the No Fly List, and the array of residential, employment, and related restrictions imposed on sex offenders. Because such restraints do not involve physical incapacitation, they are rarely deemed to infringe core liberty interests. Because they are preventive, not punitive, criminal law procedural protections do not apply. They have exploded largely unchecked — subject to little more than bare rationality review and negligible procedural protections — and without any coherent theory as to …
After The Aumf, Jennifer Daskal
After The Aumf, Jennifer Daskal
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
Over a dozen years later, the AUMF — which has never been amended — remains the principal source of the U.S. government’s domestic legal authority to use military force against al Qaeda and its associates, both on the battlefields of Afghanistan and far beyond. But even as the statutory framework has remained unchanged, the facts on the ground have evolved dramatically, leading some to call for a new AUMF. In short, calls for a new framework statute to replace the AUMF are unnecessary, provocative, and counterproductive; they perpetuate war at a time when we should be seeking to end it. …