Tag: Detainees

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 »

Detention of Terrorists and the Acceleration of the Convergence Trend

Robert Chesney & Jack Goldsmith

Last year, Jack Goldsmith and I argued in the pages of the Stanford Law Review that the traditional models of criminal and military detention have converged toward one another in connection with the problem of terrorism.
Potential models for terrorist detention, we explained, span from the pure model of military… Read More »