| More Law or Less Law? The Resilience of Human Rights Law and Institutions in the ‘War on Terror’ (2008) | |||||||||||||||
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| Chapter 8 of "Fresh Perspectives on the ‘War on Terror’". In the years since the events of September 2001 shocked the United States (US) and many other states into the adoption of wide-ranging measures to respond to actual and perceived threats of international terrorism, the deployment of law has been a central part of the design and justification of those responses, as well as of attempts to moderate and restrain their excesses. While legal responses at the international and national levels have only been a part of the array of measures adopted, the volume of law-making that has taken place has been remarkable. At the international level the extent of regulatory activity around terrorism has been striking: it includes new regulations for container shipping, civil aviation, financial transactions, customs, immigration and passports, use of the internet, and cyberterrorism, as well as provisions for the designation of many new criminal offences and the establishment of transnational law enforcement cooperation arrangements. | |||||||||||||||
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