Detention

Detention

Phillip B. Heymann addresses a set of fundamental jurisprudential questions regarding the seizure and detention of those suspected of alliances with terrorist groups and causes.

Freezing and Seizing Qadhafi’s Assets

Freezing and Seizing Qadhafi’s Assets

By Reena Mittelman — Already, Libyan assets frozen by the United States represent the largest amount ever blocked under an American sanctions action. Recent asset-recovery legislation passed in Switzerland suggests a way that the United States and its allies can seize even more.