Amos N Guiora

Amos N. Guiora is professor of law at The S. J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah. Professor Guiora teaches Criminal Law, Global Perspectives on Counter-terrorism, Religion and Terrorism and National Security Law. In addition, Guiora incorporates innovative scenario-based instruction to address national and international security issues. At the S.J. Quinney College of Law, Guiora in collaboration with other leading experts at the S.J. Quinney College of Law, will help lead the school s...See more

Amos N. Guiora is professor of law at The S. J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah. Professor Guiora teaches Criminal Law, Global Perspectives on Counter-terrorism, Religion and Terrorism and National Security Law. In addition, Guiora incorporates innovative scenario-based instruction to address national and international security issues. At the S.J. Quinney College of Law, Guiora in collaboration with other leading experts at the S.J. Quinney College of Law, will help lead the school s efforts to provide cutting-edge research, innovative training, and public service initiatives in the prevention and mitigation of global conflict. Oxford University Press will publish Professor Guiora s book Learn from History: Lessons for Extending Constitutional Protections to an Unprotected Class The Limits of Coercive Interrogation (forthcoming 2008) and Aspen Publishers will publish Professor Guiora s Terrorism Primer (forthcoming 2007). Author of;Global Perspectives on Counterterrorism (Aspen Publishers, forthcoming 2007), Professor Guiora writes and lectures extensively on issues such as Legal Aspects of Counterterrorism, Global Perspectives of Counterterrorism, Terror Financing, International Law and Morality in Armed Conflict, and Educating IDF Commanders and Soldiers on International Law and Morality. His recent publications include: Interrogating the Detainees: Extending a Hand or a Boot, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform;; Using and Abusing Financial Markets Money Laundering as the Achilles Heel of Terrorism, co-authored with Brian Field, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic; Quirin to Hamdan: Creating a Hybrid Paradigm for Detaining Terrorists, Florida Journal of International Law;; National Objectives in the Hands of Junior Leaders: IDF Experiences in Combating Terror, co-authored with Martha Minow of Harvard University, which will appear in the book Countering Terrorism in the 21st Century (Praeger Security International, 2007); A Framework for Evaluating Counterterrorism Regulations, with Jerry Ellig and Kyle McKenzie, Mercatus policy Series; Transnational Comparative Analysis of Balancing Competing Interests in Counterterrorism, Temple International & Comparative Law Journal; and Where are Terrorists to be Tried A Comparative Analysis of Rights Granted to Suspected Terrorists, Catholic University Law Review. In February, 2007, Professor Guiora was a panelist at Stanford Law School s Global Constitutionalism conference about the Effects of Other Nations Law on U.S. Jurisprudence. In December 2005, Professor Guiora debated the challenge of balancing legitimate national-security interests with the civil liberties of the individual in The Guantanamo Debate, hosted by the Massachusetts Appleseed Center for Law and Justice in Boston, with Georgetown professor David Cole. Professor Guiora was the Constitution Day speaker at Chicago-Kent College of Law and also spoke at Hamline University and Washington University School of Law. Inaddition, he presented papers at the Istanbul Conference on Global Security and Democracy, an NYU labor conference in Italy, and at a conference on torture and human rights at West Point. Professor Guiora has chaired daylong symposia on terrorism and torture, a roundtable on religion and violence, and a unique simulation-based symposium on bioterrorism, The Fifth Plague, at Case School of Law. As an expert commentator, he is frequently interviewed and quoted and has been published in the national and international media, including CNN, The Washington Post, PBS, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, BBC, C-Span, The Christian Science Monitor, Fox TV, the New York Daily News, KQV Newsradio Pittsburgh, Wisconsin... See less