Research Catalog

Title

Habeas corpus after 9/11 : confronting America's new global detention system / Jonathan Hafetz.

Author

Hafetz, Jonathan.

Publication

New York : New York University Press, c2011.

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Details

Description

ix, 323 p.; 24 cm.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books.

Subject

• Combatants and noncombatants (International law)
• Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp
• Habeas corpus > United States
• Noncitizen detention centers > Guantánamo Bay Naval Base
• Noncitizen detention centers > United States
• Prisoners of war > Legal status, laws, etc. > Guantánamo Bay Naval Base
• Terrorism > United States > Prevention

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Laying the foundation for the "war on terror" -- Guantánamo : microcosm of a prison beyond the law -- Guantánamo beyond Guantánamo : toward a global detention system -- Crossing a constitutional rubicon : the domestic "enemy combatant" cases -- Habeas corpus and the right to challenge unlawful imprisonment -- The seeds of a global constitution -- A modest judicial intervention : the first Supreme Court "enemy combatant" decisions -- The battle for habeas corpus continues -- Tackling prisons beyond the law : Guantánamo revisited -- Toward a better understanding of habeas corpus : individual rights and the role of the judiciary during wartime -- The elusive custodian : some potential limits of habeas corpus -- Terrorism as crime : toward a lawful and sustainable detention policy -- Continuity and change : the detention policy of a new administration.

ISBN

• 9780814737033 (cl : alk. paper)
• 081473703X (cl : alk. paper)
• 9780814773437 (ebook)
• 0814773435 (ebook)

LCCN

^^2010026424

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library