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Title When governments break the law [electronic resource] : the rule of law and the prosecution of the Bush administration / edited by Austin Sarat and Nasser Hussain.
Imprint New York, N.Y. : New York University Press, c2010. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
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Descrip. 1 online resource (ix, 230 p. )
Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Note Description based on print version record.
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : Responding to government lawlessness : what does the rule of law require? / Nasser Hussain and Austin Sarat -- Vindicating the rule of law : prosecuting freeriders on human rights / Claire Finkelstein -- Guantánamo in the Province of the Hague? / Daniel Herwitz -- Universal jurisdiction as praxis : an option to pursue legal accountability for superpower torturers / Lisa Hajjar -- The spider's web : how government lawbreakers routinely elude the law / Stephen Holmes -- Democracy as the rule of law / Paul Horwitz -- Justice Jackson, the memory of internment, and the rule of law after the Bush administration / Stephen I. Vladeck.
Note Online version restricted to NUS staff and students only through NUSNET.
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Subject Terrorism -- Prevention -- Law and legislation -- United States.
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International crimes.
Administrative responsibility.
Rule of law.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009.
Add Author Hussain, Nasser, 1965-
Sarat, Austin.
Add Corp Aut Project Muse.
ISBN 9780814741399 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0814741398 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780814739853 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0814739857 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814741429 (e-book)
0814741428 (e-book)
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