Routledge Handbook of Law and Terrorism

In the years since 9/11 counter-terrorism law and policy has proliferated across the world. This book sets out a comprehensive survey of how the law has been deployed in all aspects of counter-terrorism. The handbook provides an authoritative and critical analysis of how laws are, and ought to be, invoked in domestic jurisdictions against terrorism. With a comparative approach the focus is on those jurisdictions which have produced legal innovations with a sizeable impact, primarily the USA, the UK, Australia, Canada, France, Germany and the European Union.

The never before published contributions to the book are written by experts in the field of terrorism law and policy, allowing for discussion of a wide range of regulatory responses and strategies of governance. The book is divided into four parts: the boundaries and strategies of national counter-terrorism laws; the pursuit of terrorists through national criminal process and executive measures; protective security; and preventive measures. The chapters engage with areas of traditional interest to lawyers such as policing and special powers, criminal offences and the courts, and prison regimes but also tackle emerging subjects including preventing radicalisation and protective/preparative security. In this way the handbook reflects the elements of counter-terrorism laws which are more transformative of mass movements and transactions alongside prosecutions or orders aimed at particular individuals.

Professor Clive Walker is Professor of Criminal Justice Studies at the School of Law, University of Leeds. He was Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies from 1987 to 2000 and then Head of the Law School between 2000 and 2005 and in 2010. He has written extensively on terrorism issues, with many published papers not only in the UK but also in several other jurisdictions, especially the USA, where he has been a visiting professor at George Washington and Stanford Universities.

Dr Genevieve Lennon has been a lecturer at the School of Law, University of Dundee since 2010. She received her PhD from the University of Leeds in 2011 on the topic of suspicionless stop and searches under the Terrorism Act 2000, section 44.