H Jefferson Powell

Targeting Americans

The Constitutionality of the U.S. Drone War

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Produktbeschreibung

Targeting Americans focuses on the legal debate surrounding drone strikes, the use of which has expanded significantly under the Obama Presidency as part of the continuing war against terror. Despite the political salience of the legal questions raised by targeted killing, the author asserts that there has been remarkably little careful analysis of the fundamental legal question: the constitutionality of the policy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 142mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780190492847
• ISBN-10: 0190492848
• Artikelnr.: 47864523

Autorenporträt

H. Jefferson Powell is Professor of Law at Duke University. He is a prolific legal scholar and has written extensively on how constitutional concerns bear on other legal fields such as intellectual property and national security. He has taken sabbaticals from teaching during the Clinton and Obama administrations to serve as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel and Principal Deputy Solicitor General.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One
The Constitutional History of the War on Terror
Chapter Two
How to Think Constitutionally
Chapter Three
The War Powers of the United States Government
Chapter Four
The Killing of Anwar al-Awlaki: A Constitutional Analysis
Chapter Five
Targeted Killing and the Future: Three Speculations
Conclusion
Index