Security vs. Liberty in Time of War
b'Kermit Roosevelt III is the author of the legal thriller, Allegiance (Regan Arts, 2015), a historical novel published about the internment of Japanese citizens during World War II. This novel includes analysis of the classic case Korematsu v. the United States, in which the Supreme Court upheld Franklin Roosevelt\\u2019s executive order for internment, and explores the tensions between liberty and security, and between the courts and the powers of the presidency in wartime. Roosevelt\\u2019s novel lead us to discuss those same themes in the context of today\\u2019s war on terror.
Kermit Roosevelt III is a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches constitutional law. He is great grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt and distant cousin of FDR. Allegiance is his second novel, following the publication of In the Shadow of Law. He is also author of The Myth of Judicial Activism.'