Call for Papers -
AALS Section on National Security Law
“Barbarians at the Gate (or Within?):
New Developments in the Detention and Prosecution of Terrorist Suspects"
Friday, January 8, 2010. 10:30am-12:15pm
After waging the Global War on Terror for almost a decade, the United States has detained and/or prosecuted numerous foreign and domestic terrorist suspects in varied venues and under disjointed trial processes, depending upon the national status or foreign allegiance of the individual suspect, circumstances of capture, or applicability of the Geneva Conventions. The Obama Administration appears committed to bring order to the delivery of justice for those who find themselves detained and to regularize their treatment.
This panel will explore/debate such progress and consider alternatives and new proposals. At least one panel member will be selected from this Call for Papers. The subject can focus on any related topic, and submissions from junior scholars, minorities and women are particularly encouraged. The Selection Committee will be composed of the Section’s Chair-elect, Secretary and Treasurer, and the selected paper will be published in the Section’s peer-reviewed journal, the Journal of National Security Law & Policy.
The deadline for submission of papers and/or abstracts of at least 750 words is Friday, September 25, 2009. Please email the submission in PDF or Word format to Professor Mary-Rose Papandreau of Boston College at: maryrose.papandrea@bc.edu. Please direct any questions to the Chair, Professor Michael Kelly of Creighton University at: MichaelKelly@creighton.edu.