Product Description: In the Age of Terrorism, the world has become a much more dangerous place—for activists, dissenters, and other law-abiding citizens whose First Amendment rights are all too frequently at odds with law enforcement.In Hell No, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the leading public interest law organization, explores the current situation of attacks upon and criminalization of dissent, from the surveillance of activists to the federalization of local law enforcement and the labeling of activists as “terrorists...read more

Product Description: The evidence that the Bush administration is guilty of war crimes, presented in the form of a court case brought by one of the premier civil rights organizations in the United States. "He won't be tried in the United States. He can't be tried by an international tribunal...read more

Product Description: The book explores recent developments in the international and national prosecution of persons accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. It considers the relationship between national and international law, science and practice, with emphasis on the emerging principle of universial jurisdiction and the effect of "the war on terror" on legal norms...read more

Product Description: The defiance, anger, passion and optimism of America’s "most celebrated and most detested" radical lawyer, William Kunstler, ring throughout this selection of his unpublished speeches. The consequence of Kunstler’s outspoken opposition to war, racism and political repression was an extensive FBI file, which included secretly recorded transcripts of many of his public speeches, some of which are published here...read more

Looks at the Guantâanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba and the people being held there by the United States.

Offers arguments based on wide-ranging and persuasive evidence that anti-terrorism legislation in America infringes on civil rights and that the judicial infrastructure should be allowed to respond without interference from politics of anger and vengeance.

Product Description: William Kunstler, the most celebrated defense lawyer of his time, reflects on five famous cases in which ordinary citizens were targeted for their political views or the color of their skin, including Sacco and Vanzetti (Italian immigrants accused of murder), and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (communists executed for espionage)...read more

Argues that an invasion of Iraq would not be a just war and suggests reasons why it would lead to serious unintended consequences.

Product Description: The arrest of General Augusto Pinochet in October 1998 was a wake-up call to tyrants everywhere. The two subsequent rulings by the British House of Lords rejecting his claim of immunity forged legal history. This book traces the legal proceedings in the Pinochet case from the investigation in Spain, through the October 1999 ruling by a London Magistrate that Pinochet could be extradited to Spain, to the final decision to release Pinochet for health reasons...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Of value to human rights litigators and activists, this manual provides a step-by-step practical guide to handling lawsuits in the United States for human rights abuses committed in other countries. The authors fully cover the relevant statutory law and jurisprudence, especially the Alien Tort Claims Act and the Torture Victim Protection Act...read more