{"id":3387,"date":"2011-06-02T12:57:13","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T16:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/nsj\/?p=3387"},"modified":"2012-11-02T12:58:31","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T16:58:31","slug":"detention-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/nsj\/2011\/06\/detention-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Detention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Phillip B. Heymann* &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/nsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2011\/02\/Vol.-2_Heymann_Final-EIC-Edits1.pdf\">Click here to read the full text of the Essay<\/a><strong><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/nsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2011\/02\/Vol.-2_Clark-Landau_Final-Version1.pdf\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In response to various scholarly commentaries, Professor Philip Heymann argues that applying the law of war outside of the \u201cnormal state-against-state context,\u201d in order to justify military detention, involves an \u201cincreased risk of mistakes, unfairness, and resentment by our allies,\u201d as \u201cin the context of a traditional war,\u201d the law of war would otherwise provide \u201cprotective conditions that are not present when the context changes to international terrorism.\u201d With a proposed modification to the Speedy Trial Act, Professor Heymann argues that shifting to a law enforcement-based approach \u201ccomes much closer to honoring both the protection against mistakes and the protection against indefinite, perhaps lifetime, detention\u201d without sacrificing our security.<\/p>\n<p>* James Barr Ames Professor of Law, Harvard Law School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Phillip B. Heymann* &#8212; Click here to read the full text of the Essay In response to various scholarly commentaries, Professor Philip Heymann argues that applying the law of war outside of the \u201cnormal state-against-state context,\u201d in order to justify military detention, involves an \u201cincreased risk of mistakes, unfairness, and resentment by our allies,\u201d as \u201cin the context of a traditional war,\u201d the law of war would otherwise provide \u201cprotective conditions that are not present when the context changes to international terrorism.\u201d With a proposed modification to the Speedy Trial Act, Professor Heymann argues that shifting to a law 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