The Yale Law Journal

Nicholas Stephanopoulos

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Solving the Due Process Problem with Military Commissions

Nicholas Stephanopoulos

114 Yale L.J. 921 (2005)

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 prompted the creation of two new adjudicatory bodies within the Department of Defense. First, military commissions were established by presidential order just two months after the attacks in order to prosecute members of al Qaeda fo…