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: Legal Theory BlogRoosevelt on Detention & Interrogtation
By Lawrence Solum
Kermit Roosevelt III (University of Pennsylvania Law School) Detention and Interrogation in the Post-9/11 World (Suffolk University Law Review, Vol. 42, 2008) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Our detention and interrogation policies in the wake of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 have been a disaster. This paper, delivered as a Donahue Lecture at Suffolk University Law School in February 2008, explores the dimensions and source of that disaster. It first offers a clear and intelligible narrative of the construction and implementation of executive detention and interrogation policy and then analyzes the roles played by the different branches of government and the American people in order to understand how we have ended up in our current situation.
Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on June 12, 2008 (boomark / email).
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