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Terrorism and the Law, Cases and Materials
Gregory E. Maggs
American Casebook Series
West
June 2005
636 pages ISBN: 0314161422 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The United States and many other nations are experimenting
with responses to terrorism. Terrorism and the Law is a new
casebook that considers various different anti-terrorism
measures that governments have devised and the domestic and
international legal principles that may constrain these
measures. This casebook emphasizes major terrorism cases
and events in both the United States and abroad. It is an
introductory text suitable for all law students, with no
pre-requisites required. Chapters 1 through 4 concern the use of the criminal
justice system to respond to terrorism. They address the
problem of defining terrorism, the extra-territorial
application of criminal laws, the problem of making
evidence public, and many other issues that have arisen in
terrorism prosecutions. Chapters 5 and 6 cover two
important civil responses to terrorism, immigration
controls and sanctions.Chapter 7 through 19 address
military responses to terrorism. They deal with authority
to use military force against suspected terrorists,
military detention and interrogation of suspected
terrorists, the military trial and punishment of suspected
terrorists, and other related topics. Finally, chapters 20
and 21 consider civil remedies that victims may seek.
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