We are very pleased to welcome this guest post from Rumyana Grozdanova (left). Rumyana is a Deputy Co-Convener of the Human Rights Centre and a PhD student at Durham Law School who is currently researching the US program of Extraordinary Rendition and its effects on the international legal framework. You can contact her here or(…)
Some readers may be interested in the recent publication of my monograph, EU Counter-Terrorism Law: Pre-emption & the Rule of Law. The book is the first sustained study of EU legislation in the field of counter-terrorism. It critically examines EU counter-terrorism measures to ascertain how rule of law principles have been affected in the ‘war(…)
This week saw the release of the second report of the current Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation on the operation of the Terrorism Acts. The report is a remarkable work, running to over 140 pages in length, and covering several topics in depth. Although the role requires a report covering the whole legislation, the Reviewer,(…)
We are delighted to welcome this second guest post from Anna Marie Brennan. Anna Marie is PhD Candidate in Law at University College Cork and Visiting Scholar at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at Cambridge University. She will be a legal intern on the Radovan Karadzic defence team at the International Criminal Tribunal for the(…)
We are delighted to welcome back Rachel Herron, a PhD candidate at Durham Law School. This post focuses upon TPIMs and the new Enhanced Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures legislation in the UK. Rachel has previously worked as a solicitor in private practice. You can read some of Rachel’s previous posts here and here. Since(…)
I am very pleased that my book, entitled Detention in the ‘War on Terror’: Can Human Rights Fight Back? was published last week by Cambridge University Press. The book is an output of my PhD undertaken in UCC and supervised by Siobhán Mullally. In the book—as in the PhD—my interest is in exploring how counter-terrorist(…)
We are delighted to welcome back Rachel Herron , a PhD candidate at Durham Law School, with this post on the UK Government’s review of Section 44 of the Terrorism Act , Rachel has previously worked as a solicitor in private practice. Rachel’s previous post may be read here. The counter-terrorism stop and search power under(…)
It has emerged that the UK government has agreed to an out-of-court settlement with UK citizens and residents who were detained in Guantánamo Bay and elsewhere and who claim that the many violations of their human rights (including their right to be free from torture) that they experienced involved the collusion of UK forces (Guardian(…)
New National Security Strategy documents, by their nature and the hyperbole surrounding them, imply some great change in strategic direction or the recognition of a new threat. They should therefore be a pivotal moment for anyone concerned for human rights, for they suggest where the state is focussing its attention and resources and also where(…)
At the end of August an article appeared in the Royal United Services Institute Journal (pictured left), written by the Institute’s director, Michael Clarke, and Valentina Soria, under the less than hopeful title “Terrorism: The New Wave“. Nine years after the 9/11 attacks, the article paints a picture of a threat of extremist Islamic terrorism which,(…)
