Add to ORKGSince the 9/11 attacks, American legislation and legal policy in regards to classifying and processing captured terrorists has fallen short of being fully effective and lawful. Trial and error by the Bush and Obama administrations has uncovered two key lessons: (1) captured terrorists are not typical prisoners of war and thus their detainment must involve more legal scrutiny than the latter; and (2) captured terrorists are not ordinary criminals and thus the civilian criminal court system, due to constitutional constraints, is not capable of adequately trying every count of terrorism. Other nations, including France and Israel, approach this problem with different solutions, such as special jurisdictions and specific legislation. Now, the T...
The events of 9-11 presented western democracies with a challenge and a test. The challenge: respond...
The United States often faces two competing choices when a terrorist is captured overseas: bring the...
The Obama administration has continued to apply the wartime paradigm first developed by the Bush adm...
Since the 9/11 attacks, American legislation and legal policy in regards to classifying and processi...
President Obama has made clear that the United States must grapple with questions of how to detain a...
This article aims to offer a solution for prosecuting terrorists consistently and efficiently in the...
President Barack Obama has convened a multiagency taskforce whose remit includes considering whether...
In this article, I develop three theses. First, I claim that disagreements about the legality of cou...
The terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York on 9/11 set in motion a new era all over ...
This article conducts a comparative analysis of U.S. and European counter-terrorism law and policy. ...
This paper compares counter-terrorist policies in the United States, Israel and India through the le...
On the campaign trail in 2008, presidential candidate and then-Senator Barack Obama promised to rest...
Neither the law of war nor the criminal law, alone or in combination, provides an adequate legal str...
Counterterrorism efforts by the U.S. government since 2001 have produced numerous legal controversie...
The United States, like all other democratic nations that have suffered terrorist attacks, continues...
The events of 9-11 presented western democracies with a challenge and a test. The challenge: respond...
The United States often faces two competing choices when a terrorist is captured overseas: bring the...
The Obama administration has continued to apply the wartime paradigm first developed by the Bush adm...
Since the 9/11 attacks, American legislation and legal policy in regards to classifying and processi...
President Obama has made clear that the United States must grapple with questions of how to detain a...
This article aims to offer a solution for prosecuting terrorists consistently and efficiently in the...
President Barack Obama has convened a multiagency taskforce whose remit includes considering whether...
In this article, I develop three theses. First, I claim that disagreements about the legality of cou...
The terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York on 9/11 set in motion a new era all over ...
This article conducts a comparative analysis of U.S. and European counter-terrorism law and policy. ...
This paper compares counter-terrorist policies in the United States, Israel and India through the le...
On the campaign trail in 2008, presidential candidate and then-Senator Barack Obama promised to rest...
Neither the law of war nor the criminal law, alone or in combination, provides an adequate legal str...
Counterterrorism efforts by the U.S. government since 2001 have produced numerous legal controversie...
The United States, like all other democratic nations that have suffered terrorist attacks, continues...
The events of 9-11 presented western democracies with a challenge and a test. The challenge: respond...
The United States often faces two competing choices when a terrorist is captured overseas: bring the...
The Obama administration has continued to apply the wartime paradigm first developed by the Bush adm...