Resources

Here is a compilation of significant academic and news articles we have found on all sides of the question: "What is the right way to deal with the detention and trial of suspected terrorists?" By reviewing materials on all sides of the issue, we trust that two things will become apparent to the objective reader: one, that criticisms of the use of the existing criminal justice system are either unfounded or exaggerated, and two, that creation of new systems to detain people without charges or trials, or to establish a new "national security court" to try terrorism cases will reduce security as well as liberty.

Anderson, Kenneth and Elisa Massimino. “The Cost of Confusion: Resolving Ambiguities in Detainee Treatment.” Stanley Foundation (March 2007). Available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=968177%23PaperDownload.

Bobbitt, Philip. Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century.  Random House, 2008. (Quotes taken from New York Times Book Review by Niall Ferguson, April 13, 2008, available at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/books/review/Ferguson-t.html?ex=1208664000&en=8a014f230c1e6748&ei=5070&emc=eta1).

Chesney, Robert and Jack Landman Goldsmith III. “Terrorism and the Convergence of Criminal and Military Detention Models.” Stanford Law Review 60 (2008). Available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1055501.

Coughenour, John C. “How to Try a Terrorist,” New York Times, November 1, 2007, available at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/opinion/01coughenour.html?ex=1351569600&en=a06f22947011e914&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss.

Farmer, John. “A Terror Threat in the Courts,” New York Times, January 13, 2008, available at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/opinion/13farmer.html?ex=1357966800&en=9e3e864359ece593&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink.

Goldsmith, Jack. “The Laws in Wartime: Boost Trust, Close Guantanamo, and Establish a National-Security Court,” Slate, April, 2, 2008, available at http://www.slate.com/id/2187870/.

Goldsmith, Jack and Neal Katyal. “The Terrorists’ Court,” New York Times, July 11, 2007, available at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/11/opinion/11katyal.html?ex=1341806400&en=05af7338d0f0eb92&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink.

Guiora, Amos N. “Where are Terrorists to be Tried – A Comparative Analysis of Rights Granted to Suspected Terrorists.” Catholic University Law Review 56, No. 2 (Spring 2007). Available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=977259.

Guiora, Amos N. “Quirin to Hamdan: Creating a Hybrid Paradigm for the Detention of Terrorists.” Florida Journal of International Law (2007). Available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=938202.

Guiora, Amos N. and John T. Parry. “Light at the End of the Pipeline?: Choosing a Forum for Suspected Terrorists.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 156 (2008): 356-378. Available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1099180.

McCarthy, Andrew and Alykhan Velshi. “We Need a National Security Court,” Foundation for Defense of Democracies (2006).

Wittes, Benjamin and Colleen A. Peppard.  “Designing Detention: A Model Law for Terrorist Incapacitation.”  Brookings Institution (June 2009).  Available at http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2009/0626_detention_wittes/0626_detention_wittes.pdf