Law After Ground Zero

by Strawson; John

• ISBN13: 9781904385028
• ISBN10: 1904385028
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-09-06
• Publisher: Routledge-Caven

Summary

Following the events of September 11, a new legal order is emerging in which the 'terrorist threat' has been used as justification to marginalise human rights. This collection of themed essays offers an emphatic defence to the threats confronting our human rights culture. In analysing the role of the United Nations, the conduct of the Afghan war, domestic anti-terrorist legislation and the new debate about Islamic law, Law after Ground Zero demonstrates the future challenges that law will face within our global society. It also offers accounts of how events have impacted on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Iraq and Afghanistan itself, as well as debates about international law, human rights and women's rights. This unique work will interest those studying or researching in the areas of international law, human rights and humanitarian law, international relations, politics, critical legal studies, Islamic law, culture and socio-legal studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	v
Contributors	vi
Transliteration of Arabic terms	ix
Abbreviations	x
Editor's introduction -- in the name of the law	xi
John Strawson
PART 1 LAW'S FIRST STRIKE
The degradation of international law?	3	(17)
Bill Bowring
Postmodern just wars: Kosovo, Afghanistan and the new world order	20	(17)
Costas Douzinas
Enduring right	37	(7)
Peter Fitzpatrick
The terrors of freedom: the sovereignty of states and the freedom to fear	44	(15)
Anthony Carty
PART 2 THE GROUND OF RIGHTS
Cuba and the axis of evil: an old outlaw in the new order	59	(12)
Kim Van Der Borght
John Strawson
Al Qa'ida: terrorists or irregulars?	71	(19)
David Meltzer
International refugee law: excluding the Palestinians	90	(18)
Siraj Sait
Islamic feminism, possibilities and limitations	108	(15)
Qudsia Mirza
The balancing act: counter-terrorism and civil liberties in British anti-terrorism law	123	(16)
Rhiannon Talbot
PART 3 GROUND ZERO'S PROSPECTS
Locating `Ground Zero': caught between the narratives of crime and war	139	(19)
Keith Hayward
Wayne Morrison
September 11 and American policy in the Middle East	158	(12)
Tareq Y Ismael
Jacqueline S Ismael
Palestine/Israel: conflict at the crossroads	170	(17)
Rafiq Latta
Jirga: power and traditional conflict resolution in Afghanistan	187	(18)
Ali Wardak
Islamic law and the English press	205	(10)
John Strawson
Index	215