Fiona De Londras

Detention in the 'War on Terror'

Can Human Rights Fight Back?

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the US and UK's panic-related counter-terrorist detention policies and assesses human rights law's resilience to such panic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 629g
• ISBN-13: 9780521197601
• ISBN-10: 0521197600
• Artikelnr.: 33214437

Autorenporträt

Fiona de Londras is a lecturer at University College Dublin School of Law where she specialises in terrorism, human rights and constitutionalism.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Panic, fear and counter-terrorist law-making
2. The right to be free from arbitrary detention
3. Counter-terrorist detention: the executive approach
4. Legislating for counter-terrorist detention
5. International human rights law's resilience in the face of panic
6. Judicial responses to counter-terrorist detention: rights-based resistance?
7. Conclusion.