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Owen Fiss is Sterling Professor of Law at Yale University.
Obama, rather than dismantling Bush’s counterterrorism apparatus, has in crucial respects perpetuated it.
Although both the victims and the perpetrators of human rights violations on African soil have been Africans, the pursuit of justice has been conducted largely by international institutions, and not Africans themselves.
Laws imposing social disabilities on immigrants are at odds with constitutional guarantees of equality.
The state must undertake all action necessary to end the social processes that continue to perpetuate the near-caste structure of American society.
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