Sem:Political Crime & Terror. (LAW-713-001)
Kittrie
Meets: 06:00 PM - 07:50 PM (T) - Room 351
Enrolled: 6 / Limit: 16
Notices
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Description
Legal and Multidisciplinary
Seminar on
Political Crime, Terrorism and Insurgency
In United States and International Law
This is a numerically limited Seminar. But ALL interested students, whether or
not currently enrolled in this seminar, are encouraged and invited to attend the
Seminar's First Session on Tuesday, August 26, 2014 at 6 p.m. Check with
Registrar for Room number.
The Seminar will address the most critical legal, political and military issues
affecting both national and international security and public order, in the post
Cold War era.
Internal and contagious ethno-religious conflicts are threatening the
stability and existence not only of numerous new post-colonial regimes, but also
several long-established countries. Increasing demands for greater political,
social and economic justice, coupled with evidence of governmental corruption
and incompetence, have produced mass resistance, insurgencies and civil wars.
How are the traditional national and international laws to respond to these
threats?
The seminar will review the major classes and types of so-called "political
offenses": Sedition; Treason; Political Conspiracy, Civil Disobedience (including
Draft resistance and Undocumented immigration); Mass Protest, General Strike;
Rebellion; Coup d'etat; Insurgency and Terrorism.
The Seminar will concentrate on the makeup of the political offender and
their legal status and treatment.
The Seminar will review several of the legal responses and sanctions,
remedies and institutions that have emerged and which affect individuals and
groups coming within this subject area including: (1) preventive detentions; (2)
martial laws; (3) political asylum; (4) extradition; (5) pardons; {6) amnesties; {7)
humanitarian interventions; {8) human rights tribunals; {9) First Amendment
rights; {10) defenses of necessity, etc.
The Seminar will assess critically legal theories and practices that have been
applied to this dramatically evolving, international and national arena of the law.
This arena, lodged between "crime" and "war", cannot be adequately dealt with
by the traditional criminal justice or the law of war systems.
Textbooks and Other Materials
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1. Nicholas N. Kittrie, Rebels With a Cause: The Minds and Morality of
Political Offenders (Westview 2000) [Special inexpensive copies will be
made available to seminar students at the first session];
2. Additional Handouts [will be available free on MyWCL]
First Class Readings
Not available at this time.