[PDF][PDF] The Military Commissions Act of 2009 (MCA 2009): overview and legal issues

J Elsea - 2014 - upload.wikimedia.org
Summary On November 13, 2001, President Bush issued a Military Order (MO) pertaining to
the detention, treatment, and trial of certain non-citizens in the war against terrorism. Military …

Spatiality and agency: A phenomenology of containment

K Jacobson - Puncta, 2020 - jbh.journals.villanova.edu
This paper offers a critical phenomenological view of the concept of access intimacy, a term
coined by disability justice advocate Mia Mingus. Access intimacy refers to a mode of …

Forum choice for terrorism suspects

AZ Huq - Duke LJ, 2011 - HeinOnline
What forum should be used to adjudicate the status of persons suspected of involvement in
terrorism? Recent clashes between Congress and the president as to whether the status of …

Prisoners of Congress: the constitutional and political clash over detainees and the closure of Guantánamo

DJR Frakt - U. Pitt. L. Rev., 2012 - HeinOnline
To better understand the situation of Jawad and his fellow detainees and the Obama-era
detainee legislation, it is useful to have an understanding of the historical and constitutional …

Detention Without End: Reexamining the Indefinite Confinement of Terrorism Suspects Through the Lens of Criminal Sentencing

J Hafetz - UCLA L. Rev., 2013 - HeinOnline
While there has been a great deal of focus on who may be detained in the armed conflict
with al-Qaeda and associated forces (the so-called war on terror), there has been relatively …

Understanding international criminal law

ES Podgor, RS Clark - 2008 - papers.ssrn.com
This book is intended as an overview of International Criminal Law. It is divided into four
parts. The first part provides a general overview, with definitions to key terms that will appear …

Direct Participation in Hostilities as a War Crime: America's Failed Efforts to Change the Law of War

DJR Frakt - Val. UL Rev., 2011 - HeinOnline
In recent armed conflicts, there have been a large number of participants who have engaged
in hostilities but do not qualify as prisoners of war (" POW") under the Geneva Convention III …

Of suspension, due process, and Guantanamo: the reach of the fifth amendment after Boumediene and the relationship between Habeas corpus and due process

JA Geltzer - U. Pa. J. Const. L., 2011 - HeinOnline
In June 2008, one small piece of the Constitution traveled to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In
Boumediene v. Bush,' the Supreme Court he Page 1 OF SUSPENSION, DUE PROCESS, AND …

Still Unlawful: The Obama Military Commissions, Supreme Court Holdings, and Deviant Dicta in the DC Circuit

JJ Paust - Cornell Int'l LJ, 2013 - HeinOnline
In March 2011, President Barack Obama announced several steps to broaden the ability of
the United States" to bring terrorists to justice," including revamping the troubled military …

Rehabilitation & Reintegration of Juvenile War Criminals: A De Facto Ban on Their Criminal Prosecution

AS Debarre - Denv. J. Int'l L. & Pol'y, 2015 - HeinOnline
Although child soldiers that commit acts of atrocity and war crimes constitute a minority'of the
estimated 250,000 child soldiers worldwide, 2 the question of their prosecution, as yet …