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 …

crime of transnational terrorism and applied it in interpreting domestic terrorism offences under Lebanese law. This article …

While most terrorism remains localised, aspects of some transnational terrorism and counter-terrorism have been … globalisation in relation to terrorism and counter-terrorism. That is, firstly, how terrorism and counter-terrorism are immediately … technology and international finance); secondly, how terrorism is 'caused' by resistance to certain dynamic or systemic processes …

This paper first considers the policy reasons for why the international community should define terrorism, focusing on … arguments that terrorism: (a) seriously violates human rights; (b) jeopardizes the State, deliberative politics and the … Security Council measures since 2001, which have empowered States to unilaterally define and criminalize terrorism to suit …

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 …

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 …

UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Yet, as the remainder of the paper illustrates, terrorism is not listed as a … offences which could serve as a principled basis of exclusion. In the absence of an international definition of terrorism …, operative legal reference to terrorism in exclusion decisions endangers refugees and violates international refugee law. This …

international crimes, before focusing on the impacts of terrorism amnesties on international security and justice issues …

The surprising Decision by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in 2011 that transnational terrorism in peacetime is a … agreed definition nor an international crime of terrorism. This article first outlines how international law dealt with … terrorism in a criminal context up until the decision of the Tribunal in 2011. It then briefly critiques the Tribunal …