A terrorist attack: response and reflection / Theresa C. Tobin -- Surviving 9/11 / Jaimie Atkinson -- How the fire department coped / Thomas Von Essen -- The evolution of international criminal law / Elizabeth F. Defeis -- The U.S. rights to use force in response to the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center / Malvina Halberstam -- Reconciling the war on terrorism with the U.S. Constitution / Jeffrey C. Dannenberg -- Civil liberties in wartime / John P. Doherty -- Law and justice in the response to 9/11 / Stanley N. Futterman -- Basic tenets of the anti-U.S. ideology in the Arab and Muslim Street / Yassin El-Ayouty -- Interfaith imperatives post 9/11: sovereign value of the golden rule / Jonathan Glenn Granoff -- Preventing bioterrorism: nature of the threat and policy options / Berhanykun Andemicael -- How to control weapons of mass destruction / Valère Mantels -- Constructing barriers to proliferation and the illicit trade in weapons / Michael F. Cassandra -- United Nations responses to terrorism after 9/11 / Randy Rydell -- The judiciary in national emergencies / Frederic Block -- Legal Measure against financing terrorism / Oscar Schachter -- An afterword on the aftermath / Gerald J. Galgan -- September 11 and culture: a brief reflection / Francis J. Greene -- Death be vanquished / Edward Wesley.