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Terror Financing, Guilt By Association And The Paradigm Of Prevention In The ‘War On Terror’, David Cole
Terror Financing, Guilt By Association And The Paradigm Of Prevention In The ‘War On Terror’, David Cole
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
"Material support" has become the watchword of the post-9/11 era. Material support to groups that have been designated as "terrorist" has been the U.S. government's favorite charge in post-9/11 "terrorism" prosecutions. Under immigration law, material support is a basis for deportation and exclusion - even where individuals have been coerced into providing support by the terrorist group itself. And under the Military Commissions Act, it is now a "war crime."
This essay argues that the criminalization of "material support" to designated "terrorist organizations" is guilt by association in twenty-first-century garb, and presents all of the same problems that criminalizing membership …
Moral Intuitions And Organizational Culture, Milton C. Regan
Moral Intuitions And Organizational Culture, Milton C. Regan
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Many efforts to understand and respond to a succession of corporate scandals over the last few years have underscored the importance of organizational culture in shaping the behavior of individuals. This focus reflects appreciation that even if an organization has adopted elaborate rules and policies designed to ensure legal compliance and ethical behavior, those pronouncements will be ineffective if other norms and incentives promote contrary conduct.
Responding to the call for creating and sustaining an ethical culture in organizations requires appreciating the subtle ways in which various characteristics of an organization may work in tandem or at cross-purposes in shaping …
Book Review Of Bradin Cormack, A Power To Do Justice: Jurisdiction, English Literature, And The Rise Of Common Law, 1509-1625 (2007), Jennifer Locke Davitt
Book Review Of Bradin Cormack, A Power To Do Justice: Jurisdiction, English Literature, And The Rise Of Common Law, 1509-1625 (2007), Jennifer Locke Davitt
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
"A Power to Do Justice" by Bradin Cormack is a scholarly work offering a critical examination of several sixteenth-century literary texts. Cormack shows how those texts reflect a shifting understanding of the legal concept of jurisdiction during that period.