Resources on Terrorism

ASIL Task Force on Terrorism
The ASIL Task Force on Terrorism seeks to provide informed and informative debate on issues of international law related to terrorism through a series of essays analyzing legal issues underlying the War on Terrorism. Wherever possible, the Task Force will publish multiple essays on a particular topic to showcase differing points of view. Essays represent the opinions of the individual authors and are not necessarily the opinions of ASIL.

The Task Force on Terrorism, established by then-ASIL President Arthur Rovine in 2001, is co-chaired by Ruth Wedgwood, Edward B. Burling Professor of International Law and Diplomacy and Director of International Law at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and Professor of Law at Yale Law School and by Anthony D'Amato, Leighton Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law.

Terrorism Task Force essays:

• There is No Need to Revise the Laws of War in Light of September 11th
  by Jordan J. Paust

• Unprivileged Combatants and the Hostilities in Afghanistan: Their Status and Rights Under International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law
  by Robert K. Goldman & Brian D. Tittemore

• Terrorism and Migration
  by Joan Fitzpatrick

• Bio-Criminalization: Non-Proliferation, Law Enforcement and Counter-Smuggling
  by Barry Kellman

• The Myth of Preemptive Self-Defense
  by Mary Ellen O'Connell

• Effective Enforcement of International Obligations to Suppress the Financing of Terror
  by Mark Kantor

For permission to reprint any of these essays, please contact ASIL at 2223 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20008. Attn: ASIL Task Force Papers