The article considers the advantages and disadvantages of trying terrorists before regular US civilian courts, before military tribunals, before courts outside the United States or before an international tribunal While civilian courts have problems with maintaining security and handling...

A recent influential article by two American law professors, one of whom has held high positions in the US Government, asserts that customary international law plays little or no role in decisions by states. It rests this conclusion on the basis of an analysis that relies on game theory or...