The Boalt community, its faculty, students and alumni have been active voices in the effort to combat terrorism both effectively and in a manner consistent with our law and values. This page seeks to provide an entry into that broad discussion.

The law library is collecting writings and speeches from the Boalt community, and welcomes additions to this resource. The following links highlight only a little of this conversation:

• Civil Liberties and National Security: An Historical Perspective (forthcoming), co-edited by Dan Farber (summary)
• An exchange of editorials between David Caron '83 and John Yoo on the future of the laws of war in the San Francisco Chronicle.
• John Yoo, The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs After 9/11. Read two reviews: the American Journal of International Law and the New York Review of Books.
• David Bowker '98, "Unwise Counsel: The War on Terrorism and the Criminal Mistreatment of Detainees in U.S. Custody", in The Torture Debate in America.
• Chris Kutz, "The Difference Uniforms Make: Understanding the Regulation of Collective Violence in Criminal Law and the Law of War."
• Anne Joseph, "The Architecture of Smart Intelligence: Balancing Unification and Redundancy in Agency Design and Congressional Oversight."
• Evan Wallach Jr. '76, "The Procedural And Evidentiary Rules of the Post-World War II Warcrimes Trials: Did They Provide An Outline For International Legal Procedure?"
• Christian Eric Ford ‘08 "When international law makes a bad situation worse."

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