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Power and Constraint: The Accountable Presidency After 9/11. By Jack Goldsmith. New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. Pp. xvi, 311. Index. $26.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Daniel Bodansky
Daniel Bodansky*
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Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law Arizona State University
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Recent Books on International Law
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 107 , Issue 3 , July 2013 , pp. 714 - 719
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2013

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References

1 The view that the president is unconstrained is widely shared by critics and supporters of presidential power alike. See, e.g., Bruce Ackerman, The Decline and Fall of the American Republic (2010); Erica. Posner & Adrian Vermeule, The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic (2011).

2 Rasul v. Bush, 542 U.S. 466 (2004).

3 Boumediene v. Bush, 553 U.S. 723 (2008).

4 Public Law 109-148, Title X (Dec. 30, 2005), codified at 42 U.S.C. §2000dd (2012).

5 Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 548 U.S. 557 (2006).

6 Public Law 109-366 (Oct.17, 2006), codifiedat 10 U.S.C. §948a et seq. (2012).

7 Jack L. Goldsmith & Eric A. Posner, The Limits of International Law 225 (2005).

8 For A detailed discussion of the Arar case, see Kurt Eichenwald, 500 Days: Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars (2012).

9 5 U.S.C. §552 (2012).

10 The phrase is attributed to Seth Kreimer. see Kreimer, Seth F., The Freedom of Information Act and the Ecology of Transparency, 10 U.Pa. J. Const. L. 1011 (2008) at https://www.law.upenn.edu/journals/conlaw/articles/volume10/issue5/Kreimer10U.Pa.J.Const.L.1011%282008%29.pdf Google Scholar.