When governments break the law
Subtitle: the rule of law and the prosecution of the Bush administration
By: edited by Austin Sarat and Nasser Hussain
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780814741399; 9780814739853; 9780814741429
Subjects: Politics and government; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009; Law and legislation; Rule of law; Administrative responsibility; Terrorism; International crimes; Prevention
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Responding to government lawlessness : what does the rule of law require? / Nasser Hussain and Austin Sarat; title: Vindicating the rule of law : prosecuting freeriders on human rights / Claire Finkelstein; title: Guantánamo in the Province of the Hague? / Daniel Herwitz; title: Universal jurisdiction as praxis : an option to pursue legal accountability for superpower torturers / Lisa Hajjar; title: The spider's web : how government lawbreakers routinely elude the law / Stephen Holmes; title: Democracy as the rule of law / Paul Horwitz; title: Justice Jackson, the memory of internment, and the rule of law after the Bush administration / Stephen I. Vladeck.