Nov. 2 | Dr. Sara Kendall, “Immanent Enemies, Imminent Crimes”

• In-person event
• 1200, Richcraft Hall, Carleton University
• 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6

This paper takes up the 2011 targeted assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki — a dual U.S.–Yemeni citizen — to explore some of the legal tensions within the criminal–enemy dyad. Reading U.S. policy papers arguing for the ‘lawful’ killing of a U.S. citizen as an enemy combatant, the paper asks how legal temporality and identity are unsettled at the borders of international law.

Co-sponsored by the Canada Research Chair in Rhetoric and Ethics, the Bachelor of Global and International Studies (BGInS), and the Department of Law and Legal Studies