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Righting Past, Present And Future Wrongs, Rhona Smith Jun 2009

Righting Past, Present And Future Wrongs, Rhona Smith

Human Rights & Human Welfare

Three legal issues are raised by the centerpiece of this month’s Roundtable: Does the legal definition of torture include “enhanced interrogation techniques”? What are the legal responsibilities of a State when torture is committed by its agents? and What should the State do now to prevent future violations of human rights? In other words, one must characterize the actions of the past, ameliorate the damage in the present, and prevent a recurrence in the future.


June Roundtable: Introduction Jun 2009

June Roundtable: Introduction

Human Rights & Human Welfare

An annotation of:

“The Red Cross Torture Report: What It Means.” by Mark Danner. The New York Review of Books. April 30, 2009.


Response To Mark Danner’S “The Red Cross’ Torture Report: What It Means”, Charli Carpenter Jun 2009

Response To Mark Danner’S “The Red Cross’ Torture Report: What It Means”, Charli Carpenter

Human Rights & Human Welfare

Danner’s NY Review of Books treatise on torture calls our attention to many significant issues, but in his key argument he is critically wrong.


Torture—And Our Broader Understanding Of Human Rights, Mark Gibney Jun 2009

Torture—And Our Broader Understanding Of Human Rights, Mark Gibney

Human Rights & Human Welfare

Like most other human rights scholars, I am appalled at the idea that those people in the Bush White House who designed the administration’s policy on torture (but calling it something else) will in all likelihood go unpunished. In my view, the law is clear on this matter: those who directed and/or carried out torture must be held accountable for their actions. However, rather than focusing on the issue of accountability, I will use the issue of torture to make a broader point about how we have come to conceptualize the extent and scope of a state’s human rights obligations.


The Moral High Ground In An Age Of Vulnerability, Tyler Moselle Jun 2009

The Moral High Ground In An Age Of Vulnerability, Tyler Moselle

Human Rights & Human Welfare

Mark Danner’s New York Review of Books piece on torture in conjunction with John Nichols’ comment on the Bush administration, outline moral, legal and political problems related to the global war on terrorism and the ascendancy of the American imperial presidency. Most people seem to be repulsed by the idea of torture but are not morally committed enough or fully dedicated to prevent it from being employed to defend their way of life. Torture is a policy decision predicated on fear, self-defense, and vulnerability in an age of globalized insurgency: one way to respond is to take the moral high …


Flying Under The Radar Or An Unnecessary Intelligence Watchdog: A Review Of The President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, Christine E. Hinrichs Jan 2009

Flying Under The Radar Or An Unnecessary Intelligence Watchdog: A Review Of The President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, Christine E. Hinrichs

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Responses To Ten Questions, John Yoo Jan 2009

Responses To Ten Questions, John Yoo

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Responses To Ten Questions, Stephen Dycus Jan 2009

Responses To Ten Questions, Stephen Dycus

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.


National Security Lawyering And The Persistent Neglect Of Institutional Culture, Peter Margulies Jan 2009

National Security Lawyering And The Persistent Neglect Of Institutional Culture, Peter Margulies

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Serial War Crimes In Response To Terrorism Can Pose Threats To National Security, Jordan J. Paust Jan 2009

Serial War Crimes In Response To Terrorism Can Pose Threats To National Security, Jordan J. Paust

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.


An Overt Turn On Covert Action, Afsheen John Radsan Jan 2009

An Overt Turn On Covert Action, Afsheen John Radsan

Faculty Scholarship

Long past the soul-searching of Watergate, very few people question the need for covert action as a part of American foreign policy. The world is so dangerous after 9/11 that it would be irresponsible to suggest that our intelligence agencies should be disbanded or that our government should acknowledge everything it does on the dark side. Today the question is not whether we should engage in covert action at all, but how often and under what circumstances.

Not everything stays secret. Our Nation has been conducting covert action with greater transparency and more congressional participation than during the Cold War. …


Responses To Ten Questions, Marion "Spike" Bowman Jan 2009

Responses To Ten Questions, Marion "Spike" Bowman

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Responses To Ten Questions, Victor Hansen Jan 2009

Responses To Ten Questions, Victor Hansen

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Responses To Ten Questions, Scott Horton Jan 2009

Responses To Ten Questions, Scott Horton

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Responses To Ten Questions, Michael J. Kelly Jan 2009

Responses To Ten Questions, Michael J. Kelly

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Taking The "Combat" Out Of The "Enemy Combatant" Category: Yet Another Expansion Of The President's Authority To Indefinitely Detain "Enemy Combatants" Within The United States—Al-Marri V. Pucciarelli, 534 F.3d 213 (4th Cir. 2008), Scott M. Kranz Jan 2009

Taking The "Combat" Out Of The "Enemy Combatant" Category: Yet Another Expansion Of The President's Authority To Indefinitely Detain "Enemy Combatants" Within The United States—Al-Marri V. Pucciarelli, 534 F.3d 213 (4th Cir. 2008), Scott M. Kranz

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Security Vs. The Law: A False Choice, Walter F. Mondale Jan 2009

Security Vs. The Law: A False Choice, Walter F. Mondale

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Asat-Isfaction: Customary International Law And The Regulation Of Anti-Satellite Weapons, David A. Koplow Jan 2009

Asat-Isfaction: Customary International Law And The Regulation Of Anti-Satellite Weapons, David A. Koplow

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This article asserts the thesis that customary international law (CIL), even in the absence of any new treaty, already provides a legal regime constraining the testing and use in combat of anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons. This argument, if validated, is important for both legal and public policy considerations: the world (especially, but not only, the United States) has grown increasingly dependent upon satellites for the performance of a wide array of commercial and military functions. At the same time, because of this growing reliance (and hence vulnerability), interest has surged in developing novel systems for attacking a potential enemy’s satellites – …


A New, Balanced System Of Detention: An Analysis Of Neal Katyal And Jack Goldsmith's Proposal For "A Terrorists' Court", Leah Ceee O. Boomsma Jan 2008

A New, Balanced System Of Detention: An Analysis Of Neal Katyal And Jack Goldsmith's Proposal For "A Terrorists' Court", Leah Ceee O. Boomsma

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.


A Legion Of Worries: National Security Reporting In The Age Of The War On Terror, Katherine L. Johnson Jan 2008

A Legion Of Worries: National Security Reporting In The Age Of The War On Terror, Katherine L. Johnson

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Due Process Rights: Rendition Of A Citizen Terrorist, Sarah A. Weiss Jan 2008

Due Process Rights: Rendition Of A Citizen Terrorist, Sarah A. Weiss

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Targeting Terrorists: The Counterrevolution, Paul Rosenzweig Jan 2008

Targeting Terrorists: The Counterrevolution, Paul Rosenzweig

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Ten Questions On National Security, Norman Abrams, Geoffrey S. Corn, Amos Guiora, Glenn Sulmasy Jan 2008

Ten Questions On National Security, Norman Abrams, Geoffrey S. Corn, Amos Guiora, Glenn Sulmasy

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Who's The Boss—The "Public Interest Vs. Agency Interest" Balancing Act Of Intelligence Agency General Counsels, Ryan M. Clark Jan 2008

Who's The Boss—The "Public Interest Vs. Agency Interest" Balancing Act Of Intelligence Agency General Counsels, Ryan M. Clark

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Trying Terrorists, Brian S. Carter-Stiglitz Jan 2008

Trying Terrorists, Brian S. Carter-Stiglitz

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Can Government Indefinitely Detain Individuals Accused Of Being Enemy Combatants?, Deva Solomon Jan 2008

Can Government Indefinitely Detain Individuals Accused Of Being Enemy Combatants?, Deva Solomon

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.


Lawfare And Legal Ethics In Guantánamo, David Luban Jan 2008

Lawfare And Legal Ethics In Guantánamo, David Luban

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This paper, part of a symposium on the legal profession, focuses on the lawyers – some civilian and some military – who represent detainees at Guantánamo Bay. These include civilian counsel representing Guantánamo prisoners in habeas proceedings, as well as civilian and military defense counsel for those facing trial before military commissions. Using published sources as well as interviews with some of the lawyers, the paper examines the tactics by which the U.S. government has tried to disrupt the effective representation of Guantánamo detainees. In the case of habeas lawyers, whose very presence at Guantánamo is unwelcome by the government, …


Punish Or Surveil, Diane Marie Amann Apr 2007

Punish Or Surveil, Diane Marie Amann

Scholarly Works

This Article endeavors to paint a fuller picture of previous practice and present options than is often present in debates about the United States' antiterrorism measures. It begins by describing practices in place before the campaign launched after September 11, 2001. The Article focuses on punishment, the first prong of the policy long used to combat threats against the United States. Ordinary civilian and military courts stood ready to punish persons found guilty at public trials that adhered to fairness standards, and national security interests not infrequently were advanced through such courts. That is not to say that courts were …


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.


Special Tactics For A Secret War Jan 2007

Special Tactics For A Secret War

William Mitchell Law Review

No abstract provided.