Guantanamo and Beyond: Exceptional Courts And Military Commissions In Comparative Perspective - Couverture souple

Aoláin, Fionnuala Ni

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ISBN 10 : 1107401682 ISBN 13 : 9781107401686

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2013

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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.

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'Comprehensive, thorough, and thought-provoking, Guantánamo and Beyond's stellar collection of essays should be required reading for scholars, experts, and policy makers seeking to understand today's military commissions in their legal, historical and comparative international contexts. A truly welcome addition to the literature on the law after 9/11.' Karen Greenberg, Director, Center on National Security, Fordham University

'I cannot think of a better introduction to the complexities attached to the use of 'military commissions', as part of the response to unconventional warfare or terrorism, in lieu of ordinary courts or courts martial. A host of experts have contributed chapters that are both accessible to all readers and genuinely illuminating (even, I suspect, for fellow experts), detailing both the history of military commissions and issues surrounding their present use both in the United States and abroad.' Sanford Levinson, W. St John Garwood and W. St John Garwood, Jr, Centennial Chair and Professor of Government, University of Texas Law School

'The Guantánamo military commissions to try terror suspects are among the most controversial practices in the US 'war on terror' ... This welcome book assembles essays by renowned experts who explore all the facets of military commissions - at Guantánamo and elsewhere. They look hard at Guantánamo, 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 Guantánamo 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

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1107401682
• ISBN 13: 9781107401686
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 408