Introduction 1
1 Panic, fear and counter-terrorist law-making 8
2 The right to be free from arbitrary detention 36
3 Counter-terrorist detention: the executive approach 72
4 Legislating for counter-terrorist detention 116
5 International human rights law's resilience in the face of panic 166
6 Judicial responses to counter-terrorist detention: rights-based resistance? 214
Conclusion 280
Bibliography 284
Index 303