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

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

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War and emergency powers.

1. No doctrine more pernicious? Emergencies and the limits of legality

2. The compulsion of legality

3. Extra-legality and the ethic of political responsibility

4. Emergency logic : prudence, morality and the rule of law

5. Indefinite detention : rule by law or rule of law?

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

9. Emergency strategies for prescriptive legal positivists : anti-terrorist law and legal theory

10. Ordinary laws for emergencies and democratic derogation from rights

11. Presidentialism and emergency government

12. Necessity, torture and the rule of law

13. Deny everything : intelligence activities and the rule of law

14. Exceptions, bare life and colonialism

15. Struggle over legality in the midnight hour : governing the international state of emergency

16. Inter arma silent leges? Black hole theories of the laws of war.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780521895996

xii, 415 p. ; 24 cm