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The Law Under Stress after September 11

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2019

Harold Hongju Koh
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Collectively, you law librarians gathered here must have been affected by the many legal fallouts from September 11: the Office of Homeland Security, the USA Patriot Act, the Use of Military Force Resolution-, the thousands of casualties of all nationalities; the detainees; the military commissions; the prosecutions; the habeas cases. But even as you have studied and researched these individual issues, you have probably wondered whether something bigger is going on. Are these legal fallouts only symptoms of a much larger phenomenon: a post-World War II legal system placed under stress by September 11?

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Order from Chaos: Contexts for Global Legal Information IALL 21st Course on International Law Librarianship
Information
International Journal of Legal Information , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , Summer 2003 , pp. 317 - 322
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Copyright © 2003 the International Association of Law Libraries 

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Notes

1 For a critique of this legal rationale, see Koh, Harold Hongju, “On American Exceptionalism,” 55 Stanford Law Review 1479 (2002).Google Scholar

2 Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 32nd President of the United States, 1933-45.Google Scholar