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Book Announcement: Wittes on Law & the Long War in Paperback

By Lawrence Solum

Benjamin Wittes
Law and the Long War
The Future of Justice in the Age of Terror

A sober-minded exploration of law in wartime that is comprehensive, accessible, and nonpartisan. Outlining how this country came to its current impasse over human rights and counterterrorism, Law and the Long War paves the way toward fairer, more accountable rules for a conflict without end.

"Very simply, this is the best study of the legal problems arising from the U.S. war on terror."?Philip Bobbitt, Herbert Wechsler Professor of Federal Jurisprudence, Columbia University

"The most realistic and the most fair-minded assessment to date of the novel legal policy issues?detention, interrogation, surveillance, military trials, and much more?thrown up by the war on terrorism....Provides a roadmap for how the U.S. government should deal with them in the future that is at once ambitious, sensible, detailed, and institutionally sophisticated."?Jack L. Goldsmith, Harvard University

"[An] evenhanded and elegantly written analysis....A must-read in the contemporary literature about reconciling security and freedom."?The Washington Post

"Law and the Long War deserves to be read widely. It is one of the most balanced and nonpolemic accounts of legal issues in the war on terror to date."?Foreign Affairs

Penguin · 320 pp. · 978-0-14-311532-8 · $18.00 You can preorder this on Amazon for $12 plus change!

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on April 23, 2009 (boomark / email).