2016 ESML – “The Terrorism Label: an Examination of American Criminal Prosecutions”
As the 2016 Edward Said Memorial Lecturer, Professor Wadie Said confronts the issue of terrorism and the ways in which it is produced and dealt with in the American legal system. In an era in which the phenomenon of Islamophobia has loomed large in public debates about the national security challenges that confront the United States, terrorism laws and prosecutions mirror those debates, but they also raise essential questions as to the sacrificing of constitutional rights and protections that is done in the name of security.
