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Shany: The Israeli Unlawful Combatants Law: Old Wine in a New Bottle?
Yuval Shany (Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem - Law) has posted The Israeli Unlawful Combatants Law: Old Wine in a New Bottle? Here's the abstract:The Israeli Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law of 2002 (the “2002 Law”) is arguably a legal instrument of controversial origins and limited practical...
Doswald-Beck: Human Rights in Times of Conflict and Terrorism
Louise Doswald-Beck (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies - Law) has published Human Rights in Times of Conflict and Terrorism (Oxford Univ. Press 2011). Here's the abstract:This book is a guide to international human rights law as it applies to situations of armed conflict,...
Associated Press documents secret department New York officials say doesn't exist
The Associated Press continues their excellent investigative report on the CIA/NYPD intelligence gathering unit that has targeted Muslim communities in the northeast, outside of the law. The most recent story by reporters Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman pretty definitively refutes the NYPD's and...
CIA and NYPD create mini domestic CIA to investigate Muslim communities
The Associated Press runs a chilling investigative article today on what can only be described as a rogue operation in which the CIA and New York Police Department work together—outside of the legal jurisdictions of either agency—to "combat" terrorism by infiltrating Muslim communities, racial...
Guiora: Determining a Legitimate Target: The Dilemma of the Decision Maker
Amos N. Guiora (Univ. of Utah - Law) has posted Determining a Legitimate Target: The Dilemma of the Decision Maker (Texas International Law Journal, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:Nation states are under attack by non-state actors; whether non-state actors present an existential threat to nation...