Hyperlegality

New Criminal Law Review

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 514-531

  Hussain, Nasser ^a  

^a AMHERST COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 40749118073     PISSN: 19334192     EISSN: 19334206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/nclr.2007.10.4.514     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Oren Gross, Chaos and Rules: Should Responses to Violent Crises Always Be Constitutional, 112 Yale L.J. 1011, 1022 (2002-2003).
2. Terrorism Act, 2000; Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act, 2001; Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2005; Terrorism Act, 2006. All legislation available at http://www.opsi.gov.uk.
3. Secretary of State for the Home Department and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Legislation Against Terrorism, 1998, Cm. 4178 [hereinafter Legislation Against Terrorism].
4. Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act, 1997, available at http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1997/1997068.htm.
5. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (new ed. 1976).
6. Paul Gilroy, Postcolonial Melancholia 39 (2005).
7. Clive Walker, Blackstone's Guide to the Anti-Terrorism Legislation x (2002).
8. David Harvey, The New Imperialism (2003).
9. For the colonial history of Guantanamo and its influence on contemporary developments in the war on terror, see Amy Kaplan, Where Is Guantanamo, 57 Am. Q. 831 (2005).
10. Clive Walker, Prisoners of "War All the Time," 2005 Eur. Hum. Rts. L. Rev 50.
11. Arendt, supra note 5.
12. Id. at 214.
13. 2 Max Weber, Economy and Society. An Outline of Interpretive Sociology 972 (Guenther Roth & Claus Wittich eds., Ephraim Fischoff et al. trans., 1978).
14. Arendt, supra note 5, at 214.
15. Id. at 216.
16. Gilroy, supra note 6, at 51.
17. Criminal Tribes Act, 1871, India Office Records V/8/42.
18. Id. §5, at 348.
19. Id.
20. Id. §6, at 349.
21. To give only two examples: The Bengal Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1925, India Office Records v/8/131; for legislation on special tribunals, Bengal Emergency Powers Ordinance, 1931, India Office Records L/PJ/7/91.
22. Legal Advisor's Records, June 15, 1914, India Office Records L/L/6/6, no. 319. See also Nasser Hussain, The Jurisprudence of Emergency 97 (2003).
23. Legal Advisor's Records, supra note 22, at 2.
24. Id.
25. Id. at 3.
26. There were a series of Prevention of Terrorism Acts in the UK from 1976 to 1996. All are available at http://www.opsi.gov.uk.
27. Legislation Against Terrorism, supra note 3, at v.
28. Terrorism Act, 2000, §1(4)(a)-(d). For commentary, see Walker, supra note 7.
29. For a comprehensive overview of the history, operation, and future of SIAC, see House of Commons, Constitutional Affairs Committee, The Operation of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) and the use of Special Advocates, 2004-05, H.C. 323-1 [hereinafter House of Commons, SIAC Report].
30. Id. at 22-23.
31. Id. at 25.
32. Terrorism Act, 2000, pt. II.
33. Id. §121
34. Id. pt. II, §5.
35. Secretary of State for the Home Department v. Rehman [2001] UKHL 47.
36. Id. 1.
37. Id. 16.
38. Id.
39. Id. 21.
40. Id. 23.
41. Id. 21.
42. A (FC) and others (FC) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department, [2004] UKHL 56.
43. Id. 52.
44. Id. 43.
45. Id. 33.
46. Id. 44.
47. Id. 57.
48. Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2005.
49. Id. §1.
50. Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2005, §1, (4)(c)-(c), (g).
51. Nine Britons under House Arrest, Guardian, March 23, 2007, at xx; Judge Overturns Control Order on Suicidal Terror Suspect, Guardian, April 4, 2007, at xx.
52. House of Commons, SIAC Report, supra note 30, at 44.