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National Security Versus Human Rights: An Uneven Playing Field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Patricia Wald*
Affiliation:
U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit; International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (1999-2001)

Abstract

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Type
Transnational Legal Dialogue, a Human Rights-Based Hierarchy, and the Creation of Norms
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2010

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References

1 Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507 (2004); Rasul v. Bush, 542 U.S. 466 (2004); Hamdam v. Rumsfeld, 548 U.S. 557 (2006); Boumediene v. Bush, 553 U.S. 723 (2008).

2 Koh, Harold Hongju, On American Exceptionalism, 55 Stan. L. Rev. 1479 (2005)Google Scholar.

3 Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2006); Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 588 (2003).

4 Lawrence, 539 U.S. at 577.

5 Id. at 598.

6 See Hamdi, supra note 1, at 520 (detention to be “based on longstanding law-of-war principles”).

7 See Al Bihani v. Obama, 590 F.3d 866 (D.C. Cir. 2010) (law of war is irrelevant to Executive’s detention power); Kiyembi v. Obama, 555 F.3d 1022 (D.C. Cir. 2009).

8 Al Bihani, 590 F.3d (Brown, J. concurring).

9 See Patricia M. Wald, Foreward to Military Commissions Report, Vol. 1 at xv (2009).

10 Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA), 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (e) (MCA).

11 Id.

12 Scholars’ Statement of Principles for the New President on U.S. Detention Policy: An Agenda for Change, 47 Colum. J. Transnat’l L. 339, 352 (2009)Google Scholar.

13 MCA, supra note 10.

14 El Masri v. United States, 479 F.3d 296 (4th Cir. 2007).

15 Mohamed v. Jepperson Dataplan Inc., 563 F.3d 987 (9th Cir. 2008).

16 See H.R. 984, 111th Cong., 2d Sess. (2010).

17 Arar v. Ashcroft, 532 F.3d 157, 201 (2d Cir. 2008) (aff d en banc Nov. 2, 2009).

18 Rasul v. Myers, 563 F.3d 527 (D.C. Cir. 2009).

19 Id.

20 Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, 542 U.S. 692 (2004).

21 ACLU v. U.S. Dept. of Defense, 339 F. Supp. 3d 501 (S.D.N.Y. 2004); Assoc. Press v. U.S. Dept. of Defense, 410 F. Supp. 3d 147 (S.D.N.Y. 2004).