Recent revelations, by Edward Snowden and others, of the vast network of government spying enabled by modern technology have raised major concerns, both in the European Union and the United States, on how to protect privacy in the face of increasing governmental surveillance. This book brings together some of the leading experts in the fields of constitutional law, criminal law, and human rights from the US and the EU to examine the protection of privacy in the digital era, as well as the challenges that counter-terrorism cooperation between governments pose to human rights. It examines the...

The proposed monograph would have two parts, the first of which would address the direct legal regulation of and response to threats to national security (mainly but not exclusively the threat of international terrorism) in a primarily descriptive fashion. The second would consider, along thematic lines, certain secondary and derivative effects of the renewed prominence of national security considerations in the modern constitution. The book, though, is not about counter-terrorism law, nor even about national security law more broadly. It is instead a work of domestic constitutional...