Selected Topics – Criminal Law

Law of the “Global War on Terrorism”

Professor Cochran

Spring 2012

Class Assignments by Week

Beginnings

1.  Al Qaeda and the “Global War on Terrorism”:  Is this a war or what?

a.  Law and the Long War– Introduction, Chapters 1 and 2

b.  Kenneth Anderson and Elisa Massimino,The Cost of Confusion:  Resolving Ambiguities in Detainee Treatment

c.  National Strategy for Combating Terrorism (September 2006)

d.  Al Qaeda and Affiliates: Historical Perspective, Global Presence, and Implications for U.S. Policy (CRS Report for Congress, Feb. 2010)

2.  Presidential Power:  How much is too much?

a.  The Terror Presidency (entire book)

b.  Stuart Taylor and Evan Thomas, Obama’s Cheney Dilemma

c.  Stephen Carter, Man of War