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wholly new form of terrorism that demanded a novel response. Given the prior events of the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 …Debate continues as to the transformations in terrorism evidenced by the September 11 attacks and since that time. Some …, including the former U.S. President, point to changes in the nature of terrorism and argue that September 11 constituted a …
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Because of the difficulties of distinguishing friend and foe, security and insecurity, or even war and peace, terrorism …
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activities and the label of ‘terrorism’ which is becoming a primary threat to investigative journalism in the contemporary world …Since terrorism is now perceived as a primary and pervasive threat to state security, many states have adopted broad … legal definitions of ‘terrorism’ and, upon that basis, have enacted correspondingly expansive policing powers and criminal …
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.K. government discussion paper with that title. Among the twenty-three listed harms are: pornography and indecency, terrorism …
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A decade after 9/11, the international field of counter-terrorism is now thick with law. But that does not mean that … collision. In this context, this article first assesses the state of international anti-terrorism law in relation to three … determinacy of anti-terrorism law; and the legitimacy of the legal processes and institutions surrounding it. Global anti-terrorism …
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The criminal law has assumed a central role in global counter-terrorism efforts since 9/11. This article examines … criminal law responses to terrorism at the national, regional and international levels, including the controversial shift over … time from treating terrorism as ordinary crime (augmented by sector-specific, transnational treaty offences) to …
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The first part of this article outlines the purported causes of terrorism advanced in the UN General Assembly since the … any new international crime of terrorism could be accommodated by individual defences in international criminal law … terrorism could be regarded as 'illegal but justifiable' (or at least, excusable) in stringently limited, objectively verifiable …
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Much of the international legal debate about defining terrorism has focused on the ideological disputes, or technical … mechanics, of definition, rather than on the underlying policy question of why-or whether-terrorism should be internationally … existing sectoral treaty offences, war crimes and crimes against humanity. This article argues that terrorism should be defined …
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This article is a much revised and expanded version of a working paper that I posted a year or so ago. This revised version argues that the war on terror has accelerated the development of a new criminal process and that this new process has increasingly displaced traditional methods of...
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This article discusses the legal status of links, in connection with the pending cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union in Svensson, C More and BestWater. Hyperlinks, deep links, framed links and embedded links are discussed. It focuses on the Opinion of the European Copyright...
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