Product Description: This casebook, in a logical and student-friendly format, presents the challenges that terrorism poses to the law. The decisions of Congress, the President, and the courts are organized around various counterterrorism strategies and processes...read more

Product Description: Book by Haugen / Musser ed

This book provides a detailed exposition of violations of international law authorized and abetted by secret memos, authorizations, and orders of the Bush administration. In particular, it describes why several executive claims were in error, what illegal authorizations were given, what illegal interrogation tactics were approved, and what illegal transfers and secret detentions occurred. It provides the most thorough documentation of cases demonstrating that the president is bound by the laws of war; that decisions to detain persons, decide their status, and mistreat them are subject to judicial review during the war; and that the commander-in-chief power is subject to restraints by Congress.

Product Description: Behind the Wire, an update to Human Rights First’s Ending Secret Detentions, released in June 2004, assesses the nature and scope of the United States’ worldwide military and intelligence detention system. While identifying a few positive developments, the report concludes that the number of detentions is on the rise, as is secrecy surrounding the system...read more