The “War on Terror” and the Framework of International
Law, Helen Duffy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp.
li, 488.
The war on terror poses increasingly intractable challenges for the
international legal order. Some commentators query whether the
international reaction to 9/11 might have relaxed or transformed
well-established legal principles, particularly in the fields of recourse
to force and state responsibility. Other scholars opine that international
law is adequately suited to address the relatively new and polymorphous
threats of terrorism. Regardless of one's stance on the question, it
is clear that the current war on terror has generated considerable
academic writing, both inside and outside of law, and propelled various
legal issues, such as the application of international human rights,
international humanitarian law and international criminal law, to the
forefront of scholarly inquiry.