Emergencies and the limits of legality [electronic resource] / edited by Victor V. Ramraj
- Published
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Physical Description
- xii, 415 p. ; 24 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Ramraj, Victor Vridar, 1968-
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- Contents
- 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.
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- ISBN
- 9780521895996 (hbk.)
0521895995 (hbk.) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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