Emergencies and the Limits of Legality

Herausgeber: Ramraj, Victor V.

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Produktbeschreibung

An examination of the ability of law and the courts to constrain state power exercised in the course of an emergency.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 428
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 691g
• ISBN-13: 9781107403901
• ISBN-10: 1107403901
• Artikelnr.: 34447112

Inhaltsangabe

1. No doctrine more pernicious? Emergencies and the limits of legality
Victor V. Ramraj; Part I. Legality and Extralegality: 2. The compulsion of
legality David Dyzenhaus; 3. Extralegality and the ethic of political
responsibility Oren Gross; Part II. Conceptual and Normative Theories: 4.
Emergency logic: prudence, morality, and the rule of law Terry Nardin; 5.
Indefinite detention: rule by law or rule of law? R. Rueban
Balasubramaniam; Part III. Political and Sociological Theories: 6. The
political constitution of emergency powers: some conceptual issues Mark
Tushnet; 7. A topography of emergency power Nomi Claire Lazar; 8. Law,
terror and social movements: the repression-mobilisation nexus Colm
Campbell; Part IV. Prospective Constraints on State Power: 9. Emergency
strategies for prescriptive legal positivists: anti-terrorist law and legal
theory Tom Campbell; 10. Ordinary laws for emergencies and democratic
derogation from rights Kent Roach; 11. Presidentialism and emergency
government William E. Scheuerman; Part V. Judicial Responses to Official
Disobedience: 12. Necessity, torture and the rule of law A. P. Simester;
13. Deny everything: intelligence activities and the rule of law Simon
Chesterman; Part VI. Post-Colonial and International Perspectives: 14.
Exceptions, bare life and colonialism Johan Geertsema; 15. Struggle over
legality in the midnight hour: governing the international state of
emergency Kanishka Jayasuriya; 16. Inter arma silent leges? Black hole
theories of the laws of war C. L. Lim.