Law's Trials
The Performance of Legal Institutions in the US 'War on Terror'
Seiten
2019
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-45333-2 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-45333-2 (ISBN)
All Americans should be deeply troubled by violations of fundamental freedoms in the US 'war on terror'. This is the only comprehensive account of efforts during the Bush and Obama administrations to defend the rule-of-law in criminal prosecutions, courts martial, military commissions, habeas corpus petitions, civil damage actions and civil liberties cases.
The US 'war on terror' has repeatedly violated fundamental rule of law values. When executive and legislature commit such egregious wrongs, courts represent the ultimate defense. Law's Trials: The Performance of Legal Institutions in the US 'War on Terror' offers the first comprehensive account of judicial performance during the sixteen years of the Bush and Obama administrations. Abel examines criminal prosecutions of alleged terrorists, courts martial of military personnel accused of law of war violations, military commission trials of 'high value detainees', habeas corpus petitions by Guantánamo detainees, civil damage actions by victims of both the 'war on terror' and terrorism, and civil liberties violations by government officials and Islamophobic campaigners. Law's Trials identifies successful defenses of the rule of law through qualitative and quantitative analyses, comparing the behavior of judges within and between each category of cases and locating those actions in a comparative history of efforts to redress fundamental injustices.
The US 'war on terror' has repeatedly violated fundamental rule of law values. When executive and legislature commit such egregious wrongs, courts represent the ultimate defense. Law's Trials: The Performance of Legal Institutions in the US 'War on Terror' offers the first comprehensive account of judicial performance during the sixteen years of the Bush and Obama administrations. Abel examines criminal prosecutions of alleged terrorists, courts martial of military personnel accused of law of war violations, military commission trials of 'high value detainees', habeas corpus petitions by Guantánamo detainees, civil damage actions by victims of both the 'war on terror' and terrorism, and civil liberties violations by government officials and Islamophobic campaigners. Law's Trials identifies successful defenses of the rule of law through qualitative and quantitative analyses, comparing the behavior of judges within and between each category of cases and locating those actions in a comparative history of efforts to redress fundamental injustices.
Richard L. Abel is Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the former President of the Law and Society Association, former Vice President of the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Sociology of Law, and a prize winner in both. He is the author of Speaking Respect, Respecting Speech (1998), Politics by Other Means: Law in the Struggle against Apartheid, 1980–94 (1995), as well as numerous other books on lawyers and the legal profession.
1. Judging the judges; 2. Criminal prosecutions; 3. Courts martial; 4. Military commissions; 5. Habeas corpus; 6. Civil damage actions; 7. Civil liberties; 8. Reversible error?
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.07.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises; 15 Tables, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 1300 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-108-45333-3 / 1108453333 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-45333-2 / 9781108453332 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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