David Cole

David Cole is Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He is the award-winning author of several books, including Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror (with Jules Lobel, 2007) and Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism (2003).

From the Review

July 2, 2009: The Same-Sex Future

Gay Marriage: For Better or for Worse? What We've Learned from the Evidence by William N. Eskridge Jr. and Darren R. Spedale

Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution by Evan Gerstmann

Marriage, Sexuality, and Gender by Robin West

Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Emerging Conflicts edited by Douglas Laycock, Anthony R. Picarello Jr., and Robin Fretwell Wilson

March 26, 2009: Where Reagan Stopped (letter)

January 15, 2009: What to Do About the Torturers?

Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values by Philippe Sands

The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld: A Prosecution by Book by Michael Ratner and the Center for Constitutional Rights

Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond by Jameel Jaffer and Amrit Singh

December 4, 2008: A Larger War on Terror?

Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-first Century by Philip Bobbitt

June 12, 2008: The Brits Do It Better

The Cost of Counterterrorism: Power, Politics, and Liberty by Laura K. Donohue

Executive Measures, Terrorism and National Security: Have the Rules of the Game Changed? by David Bonner

December 6, 2007: The Man Behind the Torture

The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration by Jack Goldsmith

July 19, 2007: The Grand Inquisitors

Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice by John Ashcroft

General Ashcroft: Attorney at War by Nancy V. Baker

It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush by Joe Conason

Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror by Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr. and Aziz Z. Huq

January 11, 2007: 'How to Skip the Constitution': An Exchange

November 16, 2006: How to Skip the Constitution

Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency by Richard Posner

October 19, 2006: An 'Emergency Constitution'? (letter)

August 10, 2006: Why the Court Said No

July 13, 2006: In Case of Emergency

Before the Next Attack: Preserving Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism by Bruce Ackerman

March 23, 2006: Are We Safer? An Epilogue

March 9, 2006: Are We Safer?

The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right by Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon

February 9, 2006: On NSA Spying: A Letter to Congress (letter)

November 17, 2005: What Bush Wants to Hear

The Powers of War and Peace:The Constitution and Foreign Affairs After 9/11 by John Yoo

November 18, 2004: Uncle Sam Is Watching You

The Intruders: Unreasonable Searches and Seizures from King John to John Ashcroft by Samuel Dash

The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age by Jeffrey Rosen

From New York Review Books

Justice at War David Cole takes a critical look at John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales, John Yoo, and David Addington, the men who made the decisions that shaped America's war on terror. Cole argues that America can prevail against the threat of terror not by dismantling the checks and balances that guarantee the fairness of our justice system, but by restoring them.