The Human Rights of Anti-terrorism contains timely explorations of some of the most important issues facing the international community today. The book is a collection of papers by internationally- recognized scholars and thinkers from across Canada and around the world to a June 2006 colloquium on Human Rights and Anti-terrorism held in Ottawa. The colloquium grappled with the interrelationship between anti-terrorism, human rights, and international humanitarian law. The Ottawa Principles on Anti-Terrorism and Human Rights, which grew out of deliberations at the colloquium, are included here along with ten chapters which not only supplement and explain the foundations of the Ottawa Principles, but also provide readers with substantive critiques of topics related to human rights and anti-terrorism more generally.

Craig Forcese is an Associate Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa. There, he teaches administrative law, public International Law, and National Security Law and runs the annual foreign policy practicum. Much of his present research and writing relates to democratic accountability, national security, and international law. Prior to joining the law school faculty, he practiced law with the Washington D.C. office of Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, specializing in international trade law. Craig has law degrees from the University of Ottawa and Yale University, a B.A. from McGill, and an M.A. in international affairs from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University. He is a member of the bars of Ontario, New York and the District of Columbia.

He is author of National Security Law (Irwin Law, 2008)and co-author of The Laws of Government (Irwin Law 2005) and International Law: Doctrine, Practice and Theory (Irwin Law, 2007).

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Nicole LaViolette, B.A. (Honours) (Carleton), LL.B. (Ottawa), LL.M. (Cantab.), of the Ontario Bar, was Full Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa where she taught public international law, international humanitarian law, conflicts of laws and family law. Her research and publications were devoted mainly to international human rights, international humanitarian law, and the rights of refugees. She focused a significant part of her scholarly research on sexual minorities and the refugee determination system. She was also interested in transnational family law, and in 2014, she co-authored a book on the legal rights and obligations of cyclists under Canadian law.Prior to joining the law faculty, Prof. LaViolette worked as a legislative assistant in the House of Commons of Canada and collaborated with both governmental and nongovernmental organizations specializing in human rights. She was a law clerk at the Federal Court of Appeal of Canada before completing a graduate degree at Cambridge University.

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