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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.Description: xii, 415 pISBN:
  • 9780521895996 (hbk.)
  • 0521895995 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 342.0412 RAM.E
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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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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