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The End Of Al Qaeda? Rethinking The Legal End Of The War On Terror, Adam Klein
The End Of Al Qaeda? Rethinking The Legal End Of The War On Terror, Adam Klein
National Security Law Program
As the war on terrorism approaches its second decade, the open-ended nature of the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) has given rise to the legal question of when, and how, the conflict will end. The indeterminate nature of the conflict has raised fears that the war powers will continue to be exercised indefinitely-a prospect noted with concern by the Supreme Court in Boumediene v. Bush. The prevailing view among legal scholars is that under existing precedents, the AUMF and the concomitant war powers will continue indefinitely in force until the political branches officially declare the …