"A deep and thoughtful exploration of counter-terrorism written by leading commentators from around the globe. This book poses critical questions about the definition of terrorism, the role of human rights and the push by many governments for more security powers. It carefully examines the boundaries between crime and thought, crime and war, the domestic and the international and the legal and the illegal-boundaries that were once seen as inviolate, but which have become blurred during the last turbulent decade."--Kent Roach, University of Toronto, Canada. The initial responses to 9/11 engaged categorical questions about 'war', 'terrorism', and 'crime'. Now the implementation of counter-terrorism law is infused with dichotomies - typically depicted as the struggle between security and human rights, but explored more exactingly in this book as traversing boundaries around the roles of lawyers, courts, and crimes; the relationships between police, military, and security agencies; and the interplay of international and national enforcement. The contributors to this book explore how developments in counter-terrorism have resulted in pressures to cross important ethical, legal and organizational boundaries. They identify new tensions and critique the often unwanted outcomes within common law, civil law, and international legal systems. This book explores counter-terrorism measures from an original and strongly comparative perspective and delivers an important resource for scholars of terrorism laws, strategies, and politics, as well as human rights and comparative lawyers.

Countering terrorism and crossing legal boundaries /Aniceto Masferrer and Clive Walker -- What does 'terrorism' mean? / Mariona Llobet Anglí -- The fragility of fundamental rights in the origins of modern constitutionalism / Aniceto Masferrer -- Myths and misunderstandings about security, rights and liberty in the United Kingdom / Jon Moran -- Terrorism as a criminal offence / Manuel Cancio Meliá and Anneke Petzsche -- Freedom of thought or 'thought-crimes'? : Counter-terrorism and freedom of expression / Francesca Galli -- Terrorism and crimes against humanity / Jon-Mirena Landa Gorostiza -- Safety interviews, adverse inferences and the relationship between terrorism and ordinary criminal law / Shlomit Wallerstein -- Critical perspectives on the evaluation of counter-terrorism strategies / Susan Donkin and Simon Bronitt -- The right of access to a lawyer in terrorist cases / Brice Dickson -- Erasing the distinction between anti-terrorist and criminal justice measures in Ireland / Dermot PJ Walsh -- Cross-border law enforcement in the area of counter-terrorism / Saskia Hufnagel -- Detention in extremis / Clive Walker -- The amplification and melding of counter-terrorism agencies / Clive Walker and Andrew Staniforth.