Constitutional Law
Sep. 11, 2002
Carrying On
Terror and the Law - Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Throughout American history, whenever there has been a serious crisis involving a foreign threat, the government has responded with repression. In hindsight, it is clear that the loss of rights did nothing to make the country safer.





Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law
UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
Terror and the Law
By Erwin Chemerinsky
Throughout American history, whenever there has been a serious crisis involving a foreign threat, the government has responded with ...
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