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Emergencies and the limits of legality / edited by Victor V. Ramraj.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.Description: xii, 415 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780521895996
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 342.062 RAM.E
Summary: Contents 1. No doctrine more pernicious? Emergencies and the limits of legality /​ Victor V. Ramraj Pt. 1. Legality and extra-legality 2. The compulsion of legality /​ David Dyzenhaus 3. Extra-legality and the ethic of political responsibility /​ Oren Gross Pt. 2. 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 Pt. 3. 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 Pt. 4. 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 Pt. 5. 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 Pt. 6. 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents
1. No doctrine more pernicious? Emergencies and the limits of legality /​ Victor V. Ramraj
Pt. 1. Legality and extra-legality
2. The compulsion of legality /​ David Dyzenhaus
3. Extra-legality and the ethic of political responsibility /​ Oren Gross
Pt. 2. 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
Pt. 3. 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
Pt. 4. 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
Pt. 5. 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
Pt. 6. 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.

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