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Emergencies and the limits of legality /

Most modern states turn swiftly to law in an emergency. The global response to the 11 September 2001 attacks on the United States was no exception, and the wave of legislative responses is well documented. Yet there is an ever-present danger, borne out by historical and contemporary events, that eve...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ramraj, Victor Vridar, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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  • No doctrine more pernicious? Emergencies and the limits of legality / Victor V. Ramraj
  • The compulsion of legality / David Dyzenhaus
  • Extra-legality and the ethic of political responsibility / Oren Gross
  • Emergency logic : prudence, morality and the rule of law / Terry Nardin
  • Indefinite detention : rule by law or rule of law? / R. Rueban Balasubramaniam
  • The political constitution of emergency powers : some conceptual issues / Mark Tushnet
  • A topography of emergency power / Nomi Claire Lazar
  • Law, terror and social movements : the repression-mobilisation nexus / Colm Campbell
  • Emergency strategies for prescriptive legal positivists : anti-terrorist law and legal theory / Tom Campbell
  • Ordinary laws for emergencies and democratic derogation from rights / Kent Roach
  • Presidentialism and emergency government / William E. Scheuerman
  • Necessity, torture and the rule of law / A.P. Simester
  • Deny everything : intelligence activities and the rule of law / Simon Chesterman
  • Exceptions, bare life and colonialism / Johan Geertsema
  • Struggle over legality in the midnight hour : governing the international state of emergency / Kanishka Jayasuriya
  • Inter arma silent leges? Black hole theories of the laws of war / C.L. Lim.