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Informationen zum Autor Kent Roach is a Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. He served as General Reporter on counter-terrorism law at the XIX Congress on Comparative law as well as director of research for the Air India bombing inquiry. His most recent book, The 9/11 Effect: Comparative Counter-Terrorism (2011), was co-recipient of the Mundell Medal for contributions to legal writing. Klappentext This book provides a systematic overview of counter-terrorism laws in twenty-two jurisdictions representing the Americas, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Australia. Zusammenfassung This book helps establish the emerging field of comparative counter-terrorism law by an up-to-date assessment of counter-terrorism law in twenty-two countries across six continents. Special attention is given to outcomes in distinct national contexts! such as widely borrowed UK and Egyptian counter-terrorism laws yielding varying results in different adoptive countries. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: comparative counter-terrorism law comes of age Kent Roach; Part I. North America: 2. The United States Sudha N. Setty; 3. Canada Robert Diab; Part II. South America: 4. Colombia Luz Nagle; 5. Brazil Rodrigo de Souza Costa; Part III. Europe: 6. The United Kingdom Keith Syrett; 7. Switzerland Bertrand Perrin and Julien Gafner; 8. Belgium Céline Cocq and Anne Weyembergh; 9. Italy Sabrina Praduroux; 10. Spain Miguel Ángel Boldova Pasamar and Ángeles Rueda Martín; 11. Portugal José Francisco de Faria Costa; 12. Greece Georgios Triantafyllou; 13. Croatia Marissabel Škori¿; 14. Slovenia Vasilka Sancin and Maša Kovi¿ Dine; 15. Poland Piotr Daranowski; 16. The Czech Republic Veronika Bílková; 17. Romania Raluca-Ioana Mocanu and George Antoniu; Part IV. Middle East and Africa: 18. Israel Shiri Krebs; 19. South Africa Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi; Part V. Asia and Australia: 20. Japan Takeyoshi Imai; 21. China Li Zhe; 22. Singapore Eugene Tam; 23. Australia Fergal Davis, Nicola McGarrity and George Williams; 24. Thematic conclusions and future challenges Kent Roach....