The challenge
Subtitle: how a maverick Navy officer and a young law professor risked their careers to defend the Constitution--and won
By: Jonathan Mahler
Edition: 1st Picador ed.
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780312428853
Subjects: Chauffeurs; Trials, litigation; Law and legislation; International and municipal law; Military courts; Prevention; Combatants and noncombatants (International law); Terrorism; Jurisdiction; Legal status, laws
Notes: "Portions of this work originally appeared, in somewhat different form, in the June 13, 2004, January 8, 2006, and July 9, 2006, issues of The New York Times Magazine"--Title page verso.

Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-328) and index.
Table of contents: title: The JAG; title: The trials; title: VUCA; title: The professor; title: A civil power; title: A drowning man; title: The lawsuit; title: Tugging the lion's tail; title: "Oh, I doubt that seriously, sir"; title: "Judge assigned; title: we won the lottery"; title: An indefinite recess; title: "We're going to crush you"; title: Who we are; title: The Supreme Court responds; title: Getting to five; title: Where's the food?; title: The countdown; title: The argument; title: The heroes of Guanta namo?; title: Epilogue.