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Model Syllabus Two

Participants contributing to this outline:
Bill Bertrand, Leslie Gielow Jacobs, Wendy Mariner, Ed Richard, and Steve Dycus

I. Definition of Problem
   

a. Who are terrorists?
   

b. What is terrorism?
   

 

 i. War/criminal acts
   

 

 ii. Political context
   

 

 iii. Evidence
   

c. What are weapons?
   

d. How vulnerable are we?
   

e. Types of weapons
   

 

 i. Cyber
   

 

 ii. Explosives
   

 

 iii. Chemical
   

 

 iv. Bios?Victim/Vector
   

 

 v. Nuclear
   

 

 vi. Radiological
   

f. Effects
   

 

 i. Economic
   

 

 ii. Psychological
   

g. Distinguish non-terrorist events
   

 

 i. Abortion clinic bombing?
   

 

 ii. West Nile
   

 

 iii. SARS
   

 

 iv. Tree spiking
   

 

 v. Environmental
 
II. Detection/Interdiction
   

a. Federal/State Cooperation
   

b. Funding, Training and Equipment
   

c. Interagency Communication
   

d. Surveillance
   

 

 i. Law Enforcement/Public Health/Intelligence
   

e. Civil vs. criminal due process
   

 

 i. Sources
   

 

   1. Title III (4th Amendment)
   

 

   2. FISA (4th Amendment)
   

 

   3. Presidential Authority (4th Amendment)
   

 

   4. Regulatory Searches
   

f Border controls
   

g. AG
   

h. Immigration
   

i. Quarantine
   

j. Exclusion
 
III. Sources of authority
   

a. Constitution
   

 

 i. State Police Power/Federal Powers
   

 

 ii. Law Enforcement vs. Military
   

 

 iii. Congressional Legislation
   

 

 iv. Presidential Executive
   

 

   1. Presidential Directive
   

 

   2. Executive Orders
   

 

   3. Inherent Authority
   

 

 v. Administrative Law
   

 

 vi. Habeus Corpus
   

 

 vii. Martial Law
   

b. International Law
   

c. States' Authority
 
IV. Consequence Management
    a. Define the Event
   

b. Sources of Authority
   

c. Planning
   

 

 i. Process
   

 

 ii. Content
   

 

 iii. Participation
   

 

 iv. Implementation
   

 

 v. Training, Equipment, and Supplies
   

 

 vi. Credibility
   

 

 vii. Legitimacy
   

 

 viii. Management of psychological effects
   

 

 ix. Involvement in response
   

d. Enforcement
   

 

 i. Trigger Response
   

 

 ii. Communications
   

 

   1. Among Responders
   

 

   2. Agencies to Public
   

 

   3. Media Control
   

 

   4. Role of Fear
   

e. Agency Roles/Parallel Actions
   

 

 i. FEMA
   

 

 ii. National Guard
   

 

 iii. DOJ, Dept. of Homeland Security
   

 

 iv. State Health Departments
   

 

 v. DOD, etc.
   

 

 vi. Military
   

f. Law Enforcement
   

g. Casualty Management
   

 

 i. Triage
   

 

 ii. Facility Access Control
   

 

 iii. Allocating Scarce Resources
   

 

 iv. Health Personnel Issues
 
V. Liberty interests
   

a. Privacy
   

 

 i. Informational
   

 

 ii. Physical
   

b. Liberty
   

 

 i. Physical
   

 

 ii. Law Enforcement
   

 

 iii. Disease Control
   

 

   1. Testing/Examination
   

 

   2. Detention
   

 

   3. Isolation
   

c. Preventive Detention
   

 

 i. Citizen/Non?Citizen
   

 

 ii. On Shore/Off Shore
   

 

   1. Cases
   

 

   a. Salerno
   

 

   b. Sexual Predator
   

 

   c. New Cases
   

 

   d. Emergency Authority
   

 

   e. School Drug Testing
   

 

   f. Kansas v. Hendricks