"This collection emerged from a workshop held in Durham Human Rights Centre in June 2013, which was supported by a small grant from the British Academy and Leverhulme and by the Laureate Fellowship: Anti-Terror Laws and the Democratic Challenge Project in the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW. There was a follow up symposium hosted by the NSW Bar Association in Sydney in November 2013" --Verso of title page.

Introduction : Counter-terrorist judicial review : beyond dichotomies / Fergal F. Davis and Fiona de Londras -- Part I. Counter-terrorist judicial review as regulatory constitutionalism / Fiona de Londras -- Counter-terrorism judicial review by a traditionally weak judiciary / Jens Elo Rytter -- When good cases go bad : unintended consequences of rights-friendly judgments / David Jenkins -- The rhetoric and reality of judicial review of counter-terrorism actions : the United States experience / Jules Lobel -- Part II. Beyond counter-terrorism judicial review -- Emergency law as administrative law / Mark Tushnet -- The politics of counter-terrorism judicial review : creating effective parliamentary scrutiny / Fergal F. Davis -- Independent reviewers as alternative : an empirical study from Australia and the UK / Jessie Blackbourn.

Public inquiries as an attempt to fill accountability gaps left by judicial and legislative review / Kent Roach -- Part III. Counter-terrorism judicial review in the political constitution -- Rebalancing the unbalanced constitution : juridification and national security in the United Kingdom / Roger Masterman -- Business as usual : deference in counter-terrorist judicial review / Cora Chan -- Deference and dialogue in the real-world counter-terrorism context / Gavin Phillipson -- Part IV. Internationalised counter-terrorism judicial review -- Counter-terrorism law and judicial review : the challenge for the Court of Justice of the European Union / Cian C. Murphy -- Post 9/11 UK counter-terrorism cases in the European Court of Human Rights : a 'dialogic' approach to rights protection or appeasement of national authorities? / Helen Fenwick -- Accountability for counter-terrorism : challenges and potential in the role of the courts / Helen Duffy.

"Is judicial review an effective and appropriate way to regulate counter-terrorism measures? Some argue that the judiciary is ill-equipped to examine such measures, for instance because they lack the expertise of the institutions which bring them about under exigent conditions. Others claim that subjecting counter-terrorism measures to judicial review is crucial for maintaining a jurisdiction's principles of constitutionalism. This volume brings together voices from all sides of the debate from a broad range of jurisdictions, from North America, Europe and Australasia. It does not attempt to 'resolve' the argument but rather to explore it in all its dimensions. The debates are essentially concerned with fundamental questions of organising and making accountable the exercise of power in a particularly challenging environment. The book is necessary reading for all those concerned with counter-terrorism, but also with broader public law, constitutional law and administrative law principles"--