Title A war like no other : the Constitution in a time of terror / Owen Fiss ; edited and with a foreword by Trevor Sutton.

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New York : The New Press, 2015.

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Description	xv, 330 pages ; 22 cm
Summary	"Owen Fiss has been a leading legal scholar for over thirty years, yet before 2001 it would have seemed unlikely for him to write about national security and the laws of war; his focus was civil procedure and equal protection, but when the War on Terror began to shroud legal proceedings in secrecy, he realized that the bulwarks of procedure that shield the individual from the awesome power of the state were dissolving, perhaps irreparably, and that it was time for him to speak up. The ten chapters in this volume cover the major legal battlefronts of the War on Terror from Guantánamo to drones, with a focus on the constitutional implications of those new tools. The underlying theme is Fiss's concern for the offense done to the U.S. Constitution by the administrative and legislative branches of government in the name of public safety and the refusal of the judiciary to hold the government accountable. A War Like No Other will be an essential intellectual foundation for all concerned about constitutional rights and the law in a new age."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject	Terrorism -- Prevention -- Law and legislation -- United States.
	United States. Constitution.
	Civil rights -- United States.
	War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
	LAW / Constitutional.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Executive Branch.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Legislative Branch.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Judicial Branch.
	War on Terrorism (2001-2009) (OCoLC)fst01754980
	Constitution (United States) (OCoLC)fst01356075
	Civil rights. (OCoLC)fst00862627
	Terrorism -- Prevention -- Law and legislation. (OCoLC)fst01765505
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	2001 - 2009
Added Author	Sutton, Trevor, editor.
ISBN	9781620970973 (hardback)
	162097097X (hardback)
	9781620970980 (e-book)
	1620970988 (e-book)

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