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Informationen zum Autor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin is concurrently the Dorsey and Whitney Chair in Law at the University of Minnesota Law School and Professor of Law at the University of Ulster's Transitional Justice Institute in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Professor Ní Aoláin is the recipient of numerous academic awards and honors, including a Fulbright scholarship, the Alon Prize, the Robert Schumann Scholarship, a European Commission award, and the Lawlor fellowship. She has published extensively in the fields of emergency powers, conflict regulation, transitional justice, and sex-based violence in times of war. Her book Law in Times of Crisis (Cambridge University Press, 2006, with Oren Gross) was awarded the American Society of International Law's pre-eminent prize in 2007 - the Certificate of Merit for Pre-eminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship. She is also the author of On the Frontlines: Gender, War, and the Post-Conflict Process (2011). She was appointed to the Executive Council of the American Society of International law in 2010 for a three-year term. She is Chair of the Board for the International Women's Program OSI. Oren Gross is the Irving Younger Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for International Legal and Security Studies at the University of Minnesota Law School. Professor Gross has received numerous academic awards and scholarships, including a Fulbright scholarship and British Academy and British Council awards. Between 1986 and 1991, Professor Gross served as a senior legal advisory officer in the international law branch of the Israeli Defense Forces' Judge Advocate General's Corps. Professor Gross's work has been published extensively, and his articles have appeared in leading academic journals such as the Yale Law Journal, the Yale Journal of International Law, the Michigan Journal of International Law, the Minnesota Law Review, and the Cardozo Law Review. His book Law in Times of Crisis (Cambridge University Press, 2006, with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin) was awarded the American Society of International Law's pre-eminent prize in 2007 - the Certificate of Merit for Pre-eminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship. In 2008 he was elected as a member of the American Law Institute. Klappentext This book brings together the viewpoints of leading scholars and policy makers on the topic of exceptional courts and military commissions. The Guantanamo military commissions to try terror suspects are among the most controversial practices in the U.S. war on terror. Are special courts fair, or are they kangaroo courts? Are they necessary in terror cases, or do exist only because the government wants to cut corners on due process? Supporters point to the exceptional need for secrecy and security, and they dismiss civilian courts as cumbersome and inadequate for these unique cases. Critics point to rules tilted in favor of conviction, evidence tainted by torture, and courtrooms where the very microphones can be turned off in mid-hearing by CIA operatives out of the judge s control. This welcome book assembles essays by renowned experts who explore all the facets of military commissions at Guantanamo and elsewhere. They look hard at Guantanamo, 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 Guantanamo 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 Zusammenfassung This book brings together the viewpoints of leading scholars and policy makers on t...
