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In May 2022, it was announced that
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Goldsmith (2008). "Terrorism and the Convergence of Criminal and Military Detention Models".
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Robert M. Chesney (2003). "Civil
Liberties and the Terrorism Prevention Paradigm: The Guilt by Association Critique (book review)".
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and Larkin Reynolds (2011). "The Emerging Law of Detention 2.0: The Guantanamo Habeas Cases as Lawmaking". Brooking Institution.
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Chesney has written or co-authored many articles relating to the legal aspects of U.S. national security policies and practices:
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Robert M. Chesney (2013). "Beyond the Battlefield, Beyond Al Qaeda: The Destabilizing Legal Architecture of Counterterrorism"
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Robert M. Chesney (2009). "Supreme Court of the United States: The District Court Decision on Remand in Boumediene v. Bush".
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Robert M. Chesney (2007). "Beyond Conspiracy? Anticipatory Prosecution and the Challenge of Unaffiliated Terrorism".
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Robert M. Chesney (1997). "National Insecurity: Nuclear Material Availability and the Threat of Nuclear Terrorism".
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Robert M. Chesney (2007). "Disaggregating Deference: The Judicial Power and Executive Treaty Interpretations".
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Robert M. Chesney (2009). "Terrorism, Criminal Prosecution, and the Preventive Detention Debate".
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