Terrorism, The Laws Of War, And The Constitution - Debating The Enemy Combatant Cases

Informationen zum Autor Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he chairs the Koret-Taube Task Force on National Security and Law. He was cofounder and director of the Israel Program on Constitutional Government, has served as a senior consultant to the President's Council on Bioethics, and is a member of the Policy Advisory Board at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Klappentext Examines three enemy combatant cases that represent the leading edge of US efforts to devise legal rules! consistent with American constitutional principles! for waging the global war on terror. The distinguished contributors analyse the crucial questions these cases raise about the balance between national security and civil liberties and call for a reexamination of the complex connections between the Constitution and international law. Zusammenfassung Civil liberties versus national security: new issues raised by a new kind of war

Product details

• Authors: Peter Berkowitz, Peter (EDT) Berkowitz
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2005
• EAN: 9780817946227
• ISBN: 978-0-8179-4622-7
• No. of pages: 196
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Hoover Inst Press Publication; Hoover Inst Press Publication; Hoover Institution Press Publi
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law