Essays by leading constitutional scholars on the relationship between war powers and the Constitution in general and in the aftermath of September 11th.

Introduction 1
Part I
War and the American Constitutional Order / Mark E. Brandon 11
Emergencies and the Idea of Constitutionalism / Mark Tushnet 39
Accomodating Emergencies / Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule 55
Part II
Counter-Stories: Maintaining and Expanding Civil Liberties in Wartime / Mark A. Graber 95
Defending Korematsu? Reflections on Civil Liberties in Wartime / Mark Tushnet 124
Part III
The War Powers outside the Courts / William Michael Treanor 143
Between Civil Libertarianism and Executive Unilateralism: An Institutional Process Approach to Rights during Wartime / Samuel Issacharoff and Richard H. Pildes 161
Realizing Constitutional and International Norms in the Wake of September 11 / Peter J. Spiro 198
Part IV
The War of Terrorism and the End of Human Rights / David Luban 219
War, Crisis and the Constitution / Sotirios A. Barber and James E. Fleming 232
Afterword: The Supreme Court's 2004 Decisions / Mark Tushnet 249
About the Contributors 255
Index 257