Law and Director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center, Stanford University "...Laura Donohue's The Cost of Counterterrorism...demonstrate[s] that the UK has indeed, like the US, compromised civil liberties in the name of confronting post-September 11 terrorism....Donohue argues that both countries have adopted counterproductive policies on the financing of terror, detention of suspects, intelligence-gathering, and restrictions on speech." David Cole, The New York Review of Books Book Description What is the trade-off between security and freedom? Laura K. Donohue re-calculates the cost of counterterrorist law in the United States and the United Kingdom over the past four decades and argues that the damage caused by anti-terror legislation is significantly greater than it first appears.