Part III Counter-terrorism In Practice, 23 Anti-Terrorism Laws, Terrorist Profiling, and the Right to Non-Discrimination
Daniel Moeckli
From: Counter-Terrorism: International Law and Practice
Edited By: Ana María Salinas de Frías, Katja Samuel, Nigel D White
- Subject(s):
- Terrorism — Armed conflict, international — Right to non-discrimination — Equality before the law
As the chapters throughout this book demonstrate, an impressive body of international norms, institutions, and procedures specifically designed to deal with terrorism has developed in recent years. Based on the premise that contemporary international terrorism is an exceptional phenomenon that cannot be adequately addressed with general legal principles and rules, the emergence of this ‘special regime’ of anti-terrorism law may be understood to be part of a wider trend towards the fragmentation of international law.1 The impetus for the creation of this ‘special...
