Research Catalog

Title

Speaking the law : the Obama administration's addresses on national security law / Kenneth Anderson and Benjamin Wittes.

Author

Anderson, Kenneth, 1956-

Publication

• Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, [2015]
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wittes, Benjamin
• Obama, Barack
• Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace. Koret-Taube Task Force on National Security and Law

Description

ix, 542 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"The authors offer a detailed examination of the speeches of the Obama administration on national security legal issues. Viewed together her for the first time, they lay out a broad array of legal and policy positions regarding a large number of principles currently contested at both the domestic and international level. The book describes what the Obama administration has said about the legal framework in which it is operating with respect to such questions as the nature of the war on terrorism, the use of drones and targeted killings, detention, trial by military commission and federal courts, and interrogation. The authors analyze this framework, examining the stresses on it and asking where the administration got matters right and where it went wrong. They conclude with suggestions for reforms to the framework for the administration and Congress to consider"--Publisher's description..

Series Statement

Hoover Institution Press Publication ; no. 639

Uniform Title

Hoover Institution publication ; no. 639.

Alternative Title

Obama administration's addresses on national security law

Subjects

• United States
• Internal security > Law and legislation
• Terrorism > Prevention > Law and legislation
• Politics and government
• Internal security > Law and legislation > United States
• Speeches
• Speeches, addresses, etc., American
• National security > Law and legislation > United States
• Terrorism > Prevention > Law and legislation > United States
• Obama, Barack
• Since 2009
• United States > Politics and government > 2009-

Genre/Form

Speeches.

Note

• At head of title: Jean Perkins Task Force on National Security and Law.
• Includes appendices with the texts of addresses and remarks on national security by President Obama and officials of his administration.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- An overview of the Obama administration's canonical speeches of the first term -- The good, the bad, and the underdeveloped -- The president's NDU speech and the pivot from the first term to the second -- The speeches of interaction with other branches of government -- The framework and its discontents -- Conclusion -- Appendixes. Addresses and remarks by President Obama and administration officials on national security -- About the authors -- About the Hoover Institution's Jean Perkins task force on national security and law -- Index.

Call Number

IAW (Obama) 16-1446

ISBN

• 0817916547
• 9780817916541 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 978081791656 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
• 9780817916522 (mobil) (canceled/invalid)
• 9780817916589 (PDF) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015506766

OCLC

889165536

Author

Anderson, Kenneth, 1956- author.

Title

Speaking the law : the Obama administration's addresses on national security law / Kenneth Anderson and Benjamin Wittes.

Publisher

Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, [2015]

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Hoover Institution Press Publication ; no. 639

Hoover Institution publication ; no. 639.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

Since 2009

Added Author

Wittes, Benjamin, author.

Obama, Barack. Speeches. Selections (2015) Container of (work):.

Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace. Koret-Taube Task Force on National Security and Law.

Research Call Number

IAW (Obama) 16-1446