The development of an exceptional court : the history of the American military commission / David Glazier -- Military commissions in historical perspective : lessons from the United States -- Dakota war trials / Carol L. Chomsky -- Contemporary law of war and military commissions / Gary D. Solis -- Military commissions and the paradigm of prevention / David Cole -- Prevention, detention, and extraordinariness / Fiona de Londras -- In defense of federal criminal courts for terrorism cases in the United States / Gabor Rona and Raha Wala -- Exceptional courts and the structure of American military justice / Stephen I. Vladeck -- Exceptional courts in counterterrorism : lessons from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) / William C. Banks -- The law working itself pure? The Canadian experience with exceptional courts and Guantánamo / Kent Roach -- Vicious and virtuous cycles in prosecuting terrorism : the Diplock court experience / John Jackson -- Terrorism prosecution in the United Kingdom : lessons in the manipulation of criminalization and due process / Clive Walker -- Trying terrorists : the Israeli perspective / Emmanuel Gross -- Exceptional or not? An examination of India's special courts in the national security context / Jayanth K. Krishnan and Viplav Sharma -- The right to a fair trial in an extraordinary court / David S. Weissbrodt and Joesph C. Hansen -- Approaches and responses of the UN human rights mechanisms to exceptional courts and military commissions / Alex Conte -- Exceptional courts and the European Convention on Human Rights / Steven Greer -- The legitimacy deficit of exceptional international criminal jurisdiction / Yuval Shany