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From the Bookshelves: Patriots Debate: Contemporary Issues in National Security Law

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 Patriots Debate: Contemporary Issues in National Security Law

The book provides foundational knowledge, introducing current issues in national security law. Written by a “who’s who” in the field of national security law, including: John Yoo, Louis Fisher, and Stewart Baker, the book present a series of debates, organized by chapter, in which an author presents ideas in a short essay, and another offers a response.

Patriots Debate is an accessible book offering informed, educated legal reasoning enabling the reader to understand the foundational legal opinions, laws, policies and mores that form both US government policies, and the surrounding debates based on competing views of the Constitution, statutes, presidential directives, judicial decisions and history itself.

Complex national security issue are exaimined:

An exploration of terrorism interrogations

The government as internet protector

Targeted killing–In accordance with the rule of law Law and cyber war–the lessons of history

The future of military detention

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