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Emergencies and the Limits of Legality.
Examination of the ability of law and the courts to constrain state power exercised in the course of an emergency.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; Introduction; 1 No doctrine more pernicious? Emergencies and the limits of legality; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Normative, political and sociological theories; 1.3 Legal constraints on power: the temporal dimension; 1.4 Post-colonial and international perspectives; 1.5 The scope and limits of legality; PART ONE Legality and extra-legality; 2 The compulsion of legality; 3 Extra-legality and the ethic of political responsibility; PART TWO Conceptual and normative theories.
- 4 Emergency logic: prudence, morality and the rule of law5 Indefinite detention: rule by law or rule of law?; PART THREE Political and sociological theories; 6 The political constitution of emergency powers: some conceptual issues; 7 A topography of emergency power; 8 Law, terror and social movements: the repression-mobilisation nexus; PART FOUR Prospective constraints on state power; 9 Emergency strategies for prescriptive legal positivists: anti-terrorist law and.