Guantánamo and Beyond: Exceptional Courts and Military Commissions in Comparative Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781107009219 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 408 str.

Fionnuala Ni Aolain; Oren Gross

Opis

This book brings together the viewpoints of leading scholars and policy makers on the topic of exceptional courts and military commissions.

Recenzje

'The Guantánamo military commissions to try terror suspects are among the most controversial practices in the US 'war on terror' … This welcome book assembles essays by renowned experts who explore all the facets of military commissions - at Guantánamo and elsewhere. They look hard at Guantánamo, but also at past special courts both in and out of the United States, from the military tribunals for American Indians in the nineteenth century, to special courts in Ireland, Canada, and Israel, to today's international criminal tribunals. Readers trying to understand what the Guantánamo commissions are about, but who are put off by advocacy rhetoric and incomprehensible legalisms, now have a comprehensive source that sheds welcome light on the remarkable turn of democratic governments to special courts in times of crisis. I warmly recommend this book.' David Luban, University Professor in Law and Philosophy, Georgetown University

Spis treści

Part I. Military Commissions and Exceptional Courts in the United States: 1. The development of an exceptional court: the history of the American military commission David Glazier; 2. Military commissions in historical perspective: lessons from the US - Dakota war trials Carol Chomsky; 3. Contemporary law of war and military commissions Gary Solis; 4. Military commissions and the paradigm of prevention David Cole; 5. Prevention, detention, and extraordinariness Fiona de Londras; 6. In defense of federal criminal courts for terrorism cases in the United States Gabor Rona and Raha Wala; 7. Exceptional courts and the structure of American military justice Stephen I. Vladeck; 8. Exceptional courts in counterterrorism: lessons from the foreign intelligence surveillance act (FISA) William C. Banks; Part II. Exceptional Courts and Military Commissions Elsewhere: 9. The law working itself pure? The Canadian experience with exceptional courts and Guantánamo Kent Roach; 10. Vicious and virtuous cycles in prosecuting terrorism: the Diplock Court experience John Jackson; 11. Terrorism prosecution in the United Kingdom: lessons in the manipulation of criminalization and due process Clive Walker; 12. Trying terrorists: the Israeli perspective Emmanuel Gross; 13. Exceptional or not? An examination of India's special courts in the national security context Jayanth Krishnan and Viplav Sharma; Part III. International Law, Exceptional Courts and Military Commissions: 14. The right to a fair trial in an extraordinary court David Weissbrodt and Joseph Hansen; 15. Approaches and responses of the UN human rights mechanisms to exceptional courts and military commissions Alex Conte; 16. Exceptional Courts and the European Convention on Human Rights Steven Greer; 17. The legitimacy deficit of exceptional international criminal jurisdiction Yuval Shany.