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I recently reviewed Skating on Stilts: Why We Aren’t Stopping Tomorrow’s Terrorism, by Stewart Baker former Assistant Secretary for Homeland Security Policy. The review appears in Engage, Volume 11, Issue 3, December 2010. I’ve pasted the text of the review below.
Policy Paralysis and Homeland Security: A Review of Skating on Stilts: [...]
Criticism of a decision to represent al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula leader, and al Qaeda supporter Anwar al-Awlaki is coming from an unlikely source… a board member at the Center for Constitutional Rights, co-counsel to al-Awlaki’s father.
Karima Bennoune has:
gone public with her misgivings at the CCR’s decision, reflecting a debate [...]
On Thursday, November 18 at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, featuring Professor Gregory McNeal of the Pepperdine University School of Law and Ahilan Arulanantham, Director of the ACLU of Southern California’s National Security Project. The debate will be moderated by Henry Weinstein, currently a Professor at UC Irvine and formerly the [...]
Exactly one year has passed since President Obama declared he would close Guantanamo.
And today, The Washington Post reports that his Department of Justice Task Force will recommend “that nearly 50 of the 196 detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should be held indefinitely without trial under [...]
Short Biography
Greg McNeal is a professor and national security specialist focusing on the institutions and challenges associated with global security, with substantive expertise in national security law and policy, transnational crime, global policy studies, and international affairs.
He teaches at Pepperdine University's School of Law and School of Public Policy.Recent Posts
- Emerging Issues in International Humanitarian Law: Santa Clara Law
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- Targeted Killing: Law and Morality in an Asymmetrical World
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