National Security, Civil Liberties, and the War on Terror

This collection of thirty-one essays on national security, counter terrorism and civil liberties, examines competing views on the lengths to which personal freedoms and constitutional guarantees may be curtailed in the name of security. Divided into sections covering the history of the current anti-terrorism climate, interrogation practices, immigration and racial profiling, secrecy and surveillance and detention and the constitution, essays address such topics as justifying wartime limits on civil rights and liberties, torture and positive law, the use of "common-sense" profiling and comparative perspectives on the State Secrets Privilege. Most entries have been drawn from previously published works and the volume includes the relevant transcripts of several important court cases and government policy statements and documents. Contributors are influential professors of law from a variety of institutions. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

M. Katherine B. Darmer (Orange, CA) is professor of law at the Chapman University School of Law and formerly an Assistant United States Attorney in New York, NY. She is the editor with Robert M. Baird of Morality, Justice, and the Law and with Robert M. Baird and Stuart Rosenbaum of Civil Liberties and National Security in a Post-9/11 World, and the author of a number of articles addressing interrogation practices, the Fifth Amendment, and national security.

Richard D. Fybel (Santa Ana, CA) is an associate justice of the California Court of Appeal in Santa Ana, CA. He is also the chair of the California Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the Code of Judicial Ethics and was formerly a judge in the Orange County Superior Court.