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Owen Fiss is Sterling Professor of Law at Yale University.
Rather than dismantling Bush’s counterterrorism apparatus, Obama has in crucial respects perpetuated it.
Though both the victims and perpetrators of human rights violations on African soil have been Africans, the pursuit of justice has been conducted largely by international institutions.
The state must undertake all action necessary to end the social processes that continue to perpetuate the near-caste structure of American society.
Laws imposing social disabilities on immigrants are at odds with constitutional guarantees of equality.
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