Guantanamo Limbo

Judith Butler

March 14, 2002 | This article appeared in the April 1, 2002 edition of The Nation.

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International law offers too little protection for prisoners of the new war.

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Judith Butler

Judith Butler is currently a Rockefeller Fellow at the Center for Human Values at Princeton. She is the author of...

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