Private Security, Public Order

Singapore Journal of Legal Studies An invaluable addition to the field and will be of great interest to scholars, policy-makers, and the general public alike.

The European Journal of International Law Overall, this is a timely and thorough collection on an issue of increasing global importance...this work is characterized by a pragmatic approach and intellectual flexibility and will be read with great benefit by a wide range of practitioners and academics alike.

Simon Chesterman is Global Professor and Director of the New York University School of Law Singapore Programme, and Vice Dean and Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore. His books include You, The People: The United Nations, Transitional Administration, and State-Building (Oxford University Press, 2004) and Just War or Just Peace? Humanitarian Intervention and International Law (Oxford University Press, 2001). Angelina Fisher is Institute Fellow and Program Director of the Institute for International Law and Justice. She was one of the primary researchers and authors of the reports Torture by Proxy: International and Domestic Law Applicable to "Extraordinary Renditions," issued jointly by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (CHRGJ), and Beyond Guantanamo: Transfers to Torture One Year After Rasul v. Bush, issued by the CHRGJ. Angelina is also a co-author of Tortured Logic Renditions to Justice, Extraordinary Rendition, and Human Rights Law.

Introduction; PART I: ACCOUNTABILITY GAPS; 1. The privatization of violence; 2. The responsibility of states; 3. Accountability to whom?; PART II: LESSONS FROM OTHER SECTORS; 4. The privatization continuum; 5. Private prisons and the democratic deficit; 6. Regulatory choices in the privatization of infrastructure; 7. Human rights and self-regulation in the apparel industry; PART III: LIMITS; 8. Police informants; 9. Intelligence services; 10. Peacekeeping; 11. Conclusion: Private security, public order