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Counterterrorism Law

Front Cover - Counterterrorism Law

Second Edition

Stephen Dycus
Vermont Law School

William C. Banks
Syracuse University

Peter Raven-Hansen
George Washington University

2007. 814 pages. ISBN: 978-0-7355-6559-3.

See Also:
Dycus/Berney/Banks/Raven-Hansen
National Security Law, Fourth Edition


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About the Book

A detailed survey of U.S. law governing the definition, detection, detention, interrogation, and prosecution of terrorists, as well as the availability and legal use of armed force, civil liability, and economic sanctions against terrorism and its state sponsors.

  • Organizes the rapidly growing body of Counterterrorism law into discrete, coherent, and pedagogically efficient parts.
  • Provides a concise introductory framework of key Supreme Court decisions governing the powers and interactions of the branches in making and enforcing terrorism law and policy.
  • Adaptable for use in seminars as well as courses with limited class hours.
  • Covers not only core issues of detention, interrogation, and law enforcement, but also related issues of data-mining, screening, continuity of government, civil liability, targeted killing, and sections
New to the Second Edition:
  • Important recent cases
 Al-Kidd v. Ashcroft (Bivens action challenging the use of the material witness statute to detain and interrogate in a terrorism investigation)
 Farag v. United States (Picking up where the Iqbal decisions leave off, providing a review of the law concerning profiling of suspected terrorists)
 Al Maqaleh v. Gates (Testing the availability of the writ of habeas corpus to prisoners in Afghanistan)
 Al-Bihani v. Obama (The first post-Boumediene habeas decision to reach the D.C. Circuit, addressing statutory authorities for military detention, the relevance of international law, and procedural rights of detainees)
 Arar v. Ashcroft (The latest in the saga of Maher Arar’s extraordinary extradition to Syria)
 Dep’t of Defense v. ACLU (Notes on the FOIA request for photos of abusive interrogation by U.S. officials of detainees)
  • Excerpts from significant reports and materials
 The Obama Administration and International Law, by Harold Hongju Koh (Remarks on targeted killings)
 Final Report: Guantanamo Review Task Force, Jan. 22, 2010
 Military Commissions Act of 2009
 New Obama executive order on classification
 Attorney General Memo re Policies and Procedures Governing Invocation of the State Secrets Privilege, Sept. 23, 2009

Features

  • Table of Cases
    PDF. Copyright Stephen Dycus, William C. Banks, and Peter Raven-Hansen.
  • Index
    PDF. Copyright Stephen Dycus, William C. Banks, and Peter Raven-Hansen.

Preface / Sample Chapters