Criminal Law

Guiora on Counterterrorism
Amos N. Guiora (University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law) has posted American Counterterrorism: The Triangle of Detention, Interrogation and Trial on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Eight years after 9/11, American counterterrorism policy is in a state...

Amos Guiora on the Israeli Administrative Detention Model:
Over at the international law blog Opinio Juris, Professor Amos Guiora has been offering a set of very interesting guest posts on the Israeli administrative detention model. Professor Guiora was...

Lawmakers introduce bill requiring military interrogation of suspected terrorists
[JURIST] US lawmakers introduced a bill Thursday that would require the military interrogation and trial of those taken into US custody who are suspected of links to terrorism. The Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010 was introduced by Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and would require that all people detained by US authorities, both domestically and internationally, who are suspected of engaging in hostilities against the US or its coalition partners or of providing material support for those who do, would be placed in military custody for interrogation and a final status determination made by the president, attorney general, and defense secretary...

Senators McCain And Lieberman Introduce Bill To Authorize Indefinite Detention
Legislation Would Also Create New System Of Interrogation   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: (202) 675-2312 or media@dcaclu.org   WASHINGTON – A bill introduced today in the Senate would hand the government the power to indefinitely detain terrorism suspects without charge or trial, dealing a swift blow to due process and the rule of law...

Panic Legislation: The Wrong Response
JURIST Guest Columnist Amos Guiora of the University of Utah College of Law says that the McCain-Lieberman military detention bill recently introduced in the Senate is yet another unfortunate instance of US national security legislation being driven by panic instead of principle...

Roosevelt on Detention & Interrogtation
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...

Pennsylvania Juvenille Detention
Judges Face Class Action