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Follows the paper trail of torture memos that led to abuses at Guantanámo, in Afghanistan, and in Iraq.
Author : Christopher H. Pyle
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 43,56 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1597976210
Follows the paper trail of torture memos that led to abuses at Guantanámo, in Afghanistan, and in Iraq.
Author : Peter H. Maguire
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 27,8 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0231146477
"This is a revised edition of Law and war : an American story [published in 2000]."--T.p. verso.
Author : Benjamin Wittes
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 33,86 MB
Release : 2008-06-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1440632847
An authoritative assessment of the new laws of war and a sensible and sophisticated roadmap for the future of liberty in the Age of Terror America is losing a crucial front in the ongoing war on terror. It is losing not to Al Qaeda, but to its own failure to construct a set of laws that will protect the American people during this global conflict. As debate continues to rage over the legality and ethics of war, Benjamin Wittes enters the fray with a sober-minded exploration of law in wartime that is definitive, accessible, and nonpartisan. Outlining how this country came to its current impasse over human rights and counterterrorism, Law and the Long War paves the way toward fairer, more accountable rules for a conflict without end.
Author : Allan A. Ryan
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 21,97 MB
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 0700621709
The terrorist attacks of 9/11 are indelibly etched into our cultural memory. This is the story of how the legal ramifications of that day brought two presidents, Congress, and the Supreme Court into repeated confrontation over the incarceration of hundreds of suspected terrorists and “enemy combatants” at the US naval base in Guantánamo, Cuba. Could these prisoners (including an American citizen) be held indefinitely without due process of law? Did they have the right to seek their release by habeas corpus in US courts? Could they be tried in a makeshift military judicial system? With Guantánamo well into its second decade, these questions have challenged the three branches of government, each contending with the others, and each invoking the Constitution’s separation of powers as well as its checks and balances. In The 9/11 Terror Cases, Allan A. Ryan leads students and general readers through the pertinent cases: Rasul v. Bush and Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, both decided by the Supreme Court in 2004; Hamdan v. Bush, decided in 2006; and Boumediene v. Bush, in 2008. An eloquent writer and an expert in military law and constitutional litigation, Ryan is an adept guide through the nuanced complexities of these cases, which rejected the sweeping powers asserted by President Bush and Congress, and upheld the rule of law, even for enemy combatants. In doing so, as we see clearly in Ryan's deft account, the Supreme Court's rulings speak directly to the extent and nature of presidential and congressional prerogative, and to the critical separation and balance of powers in the governing of the United States.
Author : Cara H. Drinan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 33,26 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Law
ISBN : 0190605553
Despite inventing the juvenile court a little more than a century ago, the United States has become an international outlier in its juvenile sentencing practices. The War on Kids explains how that happened and how policymakers can correct the course of juvenile justice today.
Author : Adam Bonica
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 29,12 MB
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108841368
Presents a novel theory explaining how and why politicians and lawyers politicise courts.
Author : Harvey Brownstone
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 33,39 MB
Release : 2009-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1554903467
Explaining complex family law concepts and procedures in a jargon-free style, this resource includes detailed information on how family court works, offers easily understandable case examples, and describes alternatives to litigation that are designed to help prevent families with children from entering the legal system to resolve disputes. Exploring subjects that apply to all parties involved in resolving separation, divorce, and custody conflictsjudges, lawyers, mediators, parenting coaches, psychologists, family counselors, and social workersthis reference demystifies the role of lawyers and judges, debunks the myth that parents can represent themselves in court, and examines each parents responsibility to ensure that post-separation conflicts are resolved with minimal emotional stress to children.
Author : Andrew Clapham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 19,76 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Law
ISBN : 0198810466
This book provides an accessible and engaging account of the contemporary laws of war. It highlights how, even though war has been outlawed and should be finished as an institution, states continue to claim that they can wage necessary wars of self-defence, engage in lawful killings in war, and imprison law-of-war detainees.
Author : Damon Root
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 29,87 MB
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137474688
From Damon Root, a senior editor of Reason magazine, Overruled: The Long War for Control of the U.S. Supreme Court is “the most thorough account of the libertarian-conservative debate over judicial review...a valuable guide to both the past and the potential future of these important issues” (The Washington Post). Should the Supreme Court defer to the will of the majority and uphold most democratically enacted laws? Or does the Constitution empower the Supreme Court to protect a broad range of individual rights from the reach of lawmakers? In this timely and provocative book, Damon Root traces the long war over judicial activism and judicial restraint from its beginnings in the bloody age of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction to its central role in today’s blockbuster legal battles over gay rights, gun control, and health care reform. It’s a conflict that cuts across the political spectrum in surprising ways and makes for some unusual bedfellows. Judicial deference is not only a touchstone of the Progressive left, for example, it is also a philosophy adopted by many members of the modern right. But many libertarians have no patience with judicial restraint and little use for majority rule. They want the courts and judges to police the other branches of government, and expect Justices to strike down any state or federal law that infringes on their bold constitutional agenda of personal and economic freedom. Overruled is the story of two competing visions, each one with its own take on what role the government and the courts should play in our society, a fundamental debate that goes to the very heart of our constitutional system.
Author : Gerry J. Simpson
Publisher : Polity
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 26,19 MB
Release : 2007-10-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 0745630227
From events at Nuremberg and Tokyo after World War II, to the trials of Slobodan Molosevic and Saddam Hussein, war crimes trials are an increasingly pervasive feature of the aftermath of conflict. This book examines the meaning of such trials and their cultural and political effects.