Detention in the 'War on Terror' : can human rights fight back? /
"Fiona de Londras presents an overview of counter-terrorist detention in the US and the UK and the attempts by both states to achieve a downward recalibration of international human rights standards as they apply in an emergency. Arguing that the design and implementation of this policy has bee...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "Fiona de Londras presents an overview of counter-terrorist detention in the US and the UK and the attempts by both states to achieve a downward recalibration of international human rights standards as they apply in an emergency. Arguing that the design and implementation of this policy has been greatly influenced by both popular and manufactured panic, Detention in the 'War on Terror' addresses counter-terrorist detention through an original analytic framework. In contrast to domestic law in the US and UK, de Londras argues that international human rights law has generally resisted the challenge to the right to be free from arbitrary detention, largely because of its relative insulation from counter-terrorist panic. She argues that this resilience gradually emboldened superior courts in the US and UK to resist repressive detention laws and policies and insist upon greater rights-protection for suspected terrorists"-- |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 316 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-302) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781139101547 1139101544 0511996381 9780511996382 9781139098854 1139098853 9781139100885 1139100882 9781139099530 1139099531 1139097512 9781139097512 1107214963 9781107214965 |