The Center on Law and Security

New York University School of Law

A center of experts committed to promoting an informed understanding of the legal and security issues defining the post 9/11 era.

Do we do blame a president seeking to expand his authority to do that which he has taken a constitutional oath to do: to uphold and defend the Constitution and to defend this country against foreign and domestic threats foreign? Or do we blame those who do not wish to enter into the political foray in order to stand up to those institutional challenges of authority?

Viet Dinh

Al Shabab: Global or Local?

August 24, 2010

Radioactive Speech

August 9, 2010

Nothing New

By Joshua L. Dratel
July 27, 2010

Publications

NYU Review of Law & Security

The NYU Review of Law and Security is the newsletter of the Center on Law and Security. The Review is comprised of articles written by Center affiliates and edited by Karen J. Greenberg. Material is also taken from a variety of Center meetings and discussions both on and off the record. Issues focus on the legal dimensions of counterterrorism and national security.

Legal Cultures in Muslim Societies

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Rulers, Clerics, Radicals, Citizens: Current Trends in the Muslim World

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Issue No. 7 - April 2006 - Prosecuting Terrorism: The Legal Challenge

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Special Double Issue - Summer 2005 - Prosecuting Terrorism: The Global Challenge

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Issue No. 4 - April 2005 - Torture, the Courts, and the War on Terror

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Issue No. 3 - Fall 2004 - Are We Safer?

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Issue No. 2 - Spring 2004 - Crime Versus War: Guantanamo

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Issue No. 1 - Winter 2003 - Al Qaeda and the Terrorist Threat

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