Responding to 9/11: Lurching Toward a Rule of Scofflaw
Head, John W.
Head, John W.
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Despite the lip service that the Bush-Cheney administration has paid to the notion of a rule of law - claiming, for example, that countries around the world should embrace and respect the rule of law in their internal governance - the record since 9/11 suggests that the Bush-Cheney administration itself in fact decided not to practice what it preached. It can be regarded, therefore, as a "scofflaw" - a person, or in this case a cluster of powerful persons, exhibiting a cavalier disregard for written laws - in this case international laws that the USA played a central role in creating.
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2005
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The University of Kansas School of Law
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International law, Rule of law, September 11, U.s. foreign relations
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John W. Head, Responding to 9/11: Lurching Toward a Rule of Scofflaw, 15 KAN. J. L. & PUB. POL’Y 1 (2005).