Law's Trials: The Performance of Legal Institutions in the Us 'War on Terror'

ISBN-13: 9781108429757 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 858 str.

Richard L. Abel

Opis

Law's Trials analyzes the performance of US courts in upholding the rule of law during the "war on terror."

Recenzje

'Law's Trials is a remarkable achievement, beginning with the near-encyclopedic coverage of all interactions between the judiciary and those accused of terrorism. But it is far more inasmuch as Abel also asks probing questions about the circumstances under which we should expect courts and judges to defend civil liberties against the combined weight of the state and public opinion willing to sacrifice those liberties as part of a 'war on terror'.' Sanford Levinson, author of Framed: America's 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance

Spis treści

1. Judging the judges; 2. Criminal prosecutions; 3. Courts martial; 4. Military commissions; 5. Habeas corpus; 6. Civil damage actions; 7. Civil liberties; 8. Reversible error?