LAW 871: Legal Responses to Terrorism
This short course examines recent legal responses to terrorism through domestic, comparative, and international law frameworks, focusing on how a variety of legal mechanisms attempt to balance the competing needs of enhancing physical security and protecting individual liberty. Topics to be covered likely include litigation surrounding the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay, domestic prosecutions of terrorism and terrorism-related offenses, international treaties addressing terrorism, extradition of extraordinary renditions of those accused of terrorism, and the laws addressing terrorism promulgated in other countries, such as the United Kingdom and Israel. [1]
