Detention in the 'War on Terror' can human rights fight back? /
"Fiona de Londras presents an overview of counter-terrorist detention in the US and the UK and the attempts by both states to achieve a downward recalibration of international human rights standards as they apply in an emergency. Arguing that the design and implementation of this policy has bee...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Panic, fear and counter-terrorist law-making; 2. The right to be free from arbitrary detention; 3. Counter-terrorist detention: the executive approach; 4. Legislating for counter-terrorist detention; 5. International human rights law's resilience in the face of panic; 6. Judicial responses to counter-terrorist detention: rights-based resistance?; 7. Conclusion.