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National Security Law, Seventh Edition, and Counterterrorism Law, Fourth Edition, 2023-2024 Supplement

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  • Stephen Dycus
  • William C. Banks
  • Emily Berman
  • Peter Raven-Hansen
  • Stephen I. Vladeck
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412 pages
Publication Date
2023-09-29
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Stephen Dycus

Professor Stephen Dycus is an internationally recognized authority on national security law and environmental law. The courses he has taught at Vermont Law School include Public International Law, National Security Law, Estates, Property, and Water Law. He was the founding chair of the National Security Law Section, Association of American Law Schools. Professor Dycus is the lead author of National Security Law (the field's leading casebook) and Counterterrorism Law, and he was the founding co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of National Security Law & Policy.

Professor Dycus earned his BA degree in 1963 and his LLB degree in 1965 from Southern Methodist University. He served as a bank trust officer in Texas, and then as assistant dean at Southern Methodist University Law School. He earned his LLM degree in 1976 from Harvard University. He has been a faculty member at Vermont Law School since 1976. Professor Dycus was a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law in 1983-84 and at the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington, DC, in 1991. He was a visiting professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point from 1991 to 1992 and at Petrozavodsk State University in Karelia, Russia, in 1997. Professor Dycus served on the Vermont Water Resources Board for four years, was a consultant to the Department of Energy on the cleanup of the nuclear weapons complex, and was a member of a National Academies committee on cyber warfare. He is a member of the American Law Institute.

William C. Banks

Professor William C. Banks is an internationally recognized authority in national security law, counterterrorism, and constitutional law. Banks has helped set the parameters for the emerging field of national security law since 1987, co-authoring two leading texts in the field: National Security Law and Counterterrorism Law. In 2008, Banks was named the College of Law Board of Advisors Distinguished Professor at Syracuse University, where he has been a member of the faculty for more than 30 years. National Security Law was first published in 1990 and is now in its fifth edition. Banks and his co-authors published Counterterrorism Law in 2007 to help define the emerging field of counterterrorism law, and the second edition was published in 2012.

Banks is also the author of numerous other books, book chapters, and articles, including Constitutional Law: Structure and Rights in Our Federal System (6th ed. 2011); Combating Terrorism (with Mitchel Wallerstein and Renee de Nevers); New Battlefields, Old Laws: Critical Debates from the Hague to Convention to Asymmetric Warfare; Legal Sanctuaries and Predator Strikes in the War on Terror; Programmatic Surveillance and FISA – Of Needles in Haystacks; and Providing "Supplemental Security" – The Insurrection Act and the Military Role in Responding to Domestic Crises.

A graduate of the University of Nebraska (B.A. 1971) and the University of Denver (J.D. 1974, M.S. Law & Society 1982), Banks joined the faculty of the Syracuse University College of Law in 1978. Since 1998, he also has been a Professor of Public Administration in SU’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He was named the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence in 1998, a College of Law Board of Advisors Professor in 2005, and he became the founding director of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism at Syracuse University in 2003. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of National Security Law & Policy (JNSLP).

Emily Berman

Professor Emily Berman teaches national security law and constitutional law at the University of Houston Law Center, where she also serves as Assistant Dean for Faculty Development. Her scholarship identifies areas of law where executive power is subject to inadequate restraints and proposes novel mechanisms for imposing checks and balances and democratic accountability on the executive branch. Professor Berman received her A.B. in political science from Duke University and her J.D., magna cum laude, from NYU School of Law, where she was the editor-in-chief of the NYU Law Review. She also received an LL.M. in International Law from NYU. Berman’s work has been published in top journals, such as the Minnesota Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, the Boston University Law Review, the Fordham Law Review, the Indiana Law Journal, and the New York University Law Review; her opinion pieces have appeared in Just Security, Lawfare, The Atlantic Online, the National Law Journal, Legal Times Online, and CNN.com, among others.

Peter Raven-Hansen
Glen Earl Weston Research Professor of Law Emeritus
George Washington University

Professor Raven-Hansen is Glen Earl Weston Research Professor of Law Emeritus at George Washington University Law School. There he taught national security law, counterterrorism law, civil procedure, and evidence, and founded the National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law LL.M. program. He is a co-author of National Security Law and Counterterrorism Law, as well as the monographs, National Security Law and the Power of the Purse and First Use of Nuclear Weapons, and various articles on national security law. He has appeared as a speaker and panelist on issues of war powers, military detention, military commissions, intelligence operations, counterterrorism, security enforcement, and national security and civil liberties.

Professor Raven-Hansen also is co-author of the widely adopted casebook, Civil Procedure: A Coursebook, and the student hornbook, Understanding Civil Procedure. Before joining the Law School faculty in 1980, Professor Raven-Hansen was in private practice with the firm of Hogan & Hartson in Washington, D.C., and worked as a senior economic analyst with Abt Associates, Inc., in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He currently assists in civil litigation under the Antiterrorism Act and has appeared in a variety of U.S. and international forums as an expert witness on national security and related civil procedure issues.

Stephen Vladeck

Stephen I. Vladeck is a Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law (and, as of August 2016, at the University of Texas School of Law). His teaching and research focus on federal jurisdiction, constitutional law, and national security law. A nationally recognized expert on the role of the federal courts in the war on terrorism, Vladeck’s prolific and widely cited scholarship has appeared in an array of legal publications—including the Harvard Law Review and the Yale Law Journal—and his popular writing has been published in forums ranging from the New York Times to BuzzFeed.

Professor Vladeck has won numerous awards for his teaching, his scholarship, and his service to the legal profession. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute, a senior editor of the peer-reviewed Journal of National Security Law and Policy, co-editor-in-chief of the Just Security blog, a senior contributor to the Lawfare blog, the Supreme Court Fellow at the Constitution Project, and a fellow at the Center on National Security at Fordham University School of Law. A 2004 graduate of Yale Law School, Vladeck clerked for the Honorable Marsha S. Berzon on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the Honorable Rosemary Barkett on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
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Publication date
2023-09-29
Copyright Year
2023
Pages
412
Print
9798889061472
eBook
9798889061496
Paperback - FREDPOD
9798892071345
Audiobook
9798899631863
eBook + Audiobook
9798899633683
Subject
National Security and Armed Conflict
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