John Strawson teaches Law and Middle East Studies at the School of Law, University of East London, where he is Coordinator of the Encountering Legal Cultures research group.

• 1: Law’s First Strike; 1: The degradation of international law?; 2: Postmodern just wars: Kosovo, Afghanistan and the new world order; 3: Enduring right; 4: The terrors of freedom: the sovereignty of states and the freedom to fear; 2: The Ground of Rights; 5: Cuba and the axis of evil: an old outlaw in the new order; 6: Al Qa’ida: terrorists or irregulars?; 7: International refugee law: excluding the Palestinians; 8: Islamic feminism, possibilities and limitations; 9: The balancing act: counter-terrorism and civil liberties in British anti-terrorism law; 3: Ground Zero’s Prospects; 10: Locating ‘Ground Zero’: caught between the narratives of crime and war; 11: September 11 and American policy in the Middle East; 12: Palestine/Israel: conflict at the crossroads; 13: Jirga: power and traditional conflict resolution in Afghanistan; 14: Islamic law and the English press

All in all this book that will provide a useful contribution to the literature on September the 11. The best chapters in the book raise stimulating issues that all those interested in September 11 need to carefully consider.'European Journal of International Law, June 2004, Vol 15.