"Last Thursday the Lawfare Project, a non-profit founded by attorney Brooke Goldstein to confront “lawfare,” held a conference that assembled a remarkable constellation of legal lights to examine the ways jihadists are attempting to hijack Western legal systems—and to fight back, legally.
In her opening remarks, Goldstein defined lawfare as “the use of the law as a weapon of war.”
The conference, which took place at the New York County Law Building in downtown Manhattan, examined some of the ways terrorists and terror-sponsoring regimes are misusing the legal systems of Western democracies, such as filing nuisance lawsuits against writers who are critical of Islam and training terrorists to claim, upon capture, that they are being abused/tortured in order to tie up their prosecutions in the U.S. legal system.
The conference also addressed some of the possibilities for combating this insidious kind of creative “legal jihad.”"
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