volokh.com - 11/14/2008
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My colleague Professor Amos Guiora has just written an interesting essay about what to do with the Guantanamo detainees. Here is an abstract:...
papers.ssrn.com - 11/13/2008
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Amos N. Guiora University of Utah - S.J.
Quinney College of Law Northwestern University Law Review, Colloquy,...
Vol. 103, p. 199, 2008 Abstract: In the aftermath of 9/11, definitional uncertainty as to the status and rights of detainees has contributed ...
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Eric Posner lists facts that make closing Gitmo difficult while Paul Cassell points to a paper by Professor Amos Guiora on how to try the detainees: I suggest a hybrid "domestic terror court" that would allow for an in camera review of confidential intelligence information presented by the prosecutor and a representative of the intelligence services. A properly constituted domestic terror court - comprised of judges schooled in understanding intelligence reports and intelligence gathering procedures, and aware of the necessity of ...
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... In addition, accepting the Bushian premise that Article III courts are inadequate would place the Obama Administration in the position of cementing a noxious precedent. If preventive detention becomes the "new normal," what manner of abuse will Obama's eventual successor concoct? And in the meantime, what norms would we set -- and what kind of change would Obama signal -- to the onlooking international community? ...
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