Legal Commentary

Over at the CoOp, Adam Shinar, a Clark Byse Fellow and JSD candidate at Harvard, has a review of the new book edited by Austin Sarat and Nasser Hussain, When Governments Break the Law: The Rule of Law and the Prosecution of the Bush Administration.  Fellow blogger Steve Vladeck and I both contributed chapters to this book, so I'm doubly grateful to Shinar for his kind review.  As he notes, the book proceeds from the assumption that the Bush Administration did indeed break the law in its prosecution of the war on terror, not because that question is not open for debate but in order to move past it and consider what measures, if any, should be taken if that assumption is true.  The book is really thus about what the rule of law demands in these circumstances.  My own contribution notwithstanding, I think the book turned out well.  I appreciate the review and hope others who are interested in rule-of-law issues in this context will find the book useful.