- Duke Law Journal
- 28 March 2011
- Law Review Article
Mohammed Jawad and the Military Commissions of Guantánamo
David J. R. Frakt Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law, Barry University
During the last presidential campaign, then-candidate Barack Obama pledged to close the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba and suggested that he would end the use of military commissions and rely exclusively on federal courts to prosecute suspected terrorists. Upon assuming office, he revised his approach and announced a bifurcated… Read More »