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Emergencies in Public Law
This book challenges the traditional framing of emergency powers as 'exceptions' by illustrating their long-term legal and political effects.
Human Shields
From Syrian civilians locked in iron cages to veterans joining peaceful indigenous water protectors at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, from Sri Lanka to Iraq and from Yemen to the United States, human beings have been used as shields for protection, coercion, or deterrence. Over the past decade, human shields have also appeared with increasing frequency in antinuclear struggles, civil and environmental protests, and even computer games. The phenomenon, however, is by no means a new one. Describing the use of human shields in key historical and contemporary moments across the globe, Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini demonstrate how the increasing weaponization of human beings has made the ...
The Long Arc of Legality
Explores how the central question of philosophy of law is the legal subject's: how can that be law for me?
Emergency Powers in Asia
What role does, and should, legal, political, and constitutional norms play in constraining emergency powers, in Asia and beyond.
Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
Topics covered in this volume include: capital punishment; US abortion law; legal politics of temporality in emergencies; gendered racialization and White supremacy in the US; conflict resolution and legal theory; and self-determination for indigenous peoples in the Pacific.
One Nation Under Surveillance
What limits, if any, should be placed on a government's efforts to spy on its citizens in the interests of national security? Spying on foreigners has long been regarded as an unseemly but necessary enterprise. Spying on one's own citizens in a democracy, by contrast, has historically been subject to various forms of legal and political restraint. For most of the twentieth century these regimes were kept distinct. That position is no longer tenable. Modern threats do not respect national borders. Changes in technology make it impractical to distinguish between 'foreign' and 'local' communications. And our culture is progressively reducing the sphere of activity that citizens can reasonably e...
To Reform the World
This book explores how international organizations (IOs) have expanded their powers over time without formally amending their founding treaties. IOs intervene in military, financial, economic, political, social, and cultural affairs, and increasingly take on roles not explicitly assigned to them by law. Sinclair contends that this 'mission creep' has allowed IOs to intervene internationally in a way that has allowed them to recast institutions within and interactions among states, societies, and peoples on a broadly Western, liberal model. Adopting a historical and interdisciplinary, socio-legal approach, Sinclair supports this claim through detailed investigations of historical episodes inv...
Constitutionalism Under Extreme Conditions
This book examines the problem of constitutional change in times of crisis. Divided into five main parts, it both explores and interrogates how public law manages change in periods of extraordinary pressure on the constitution. In Part I, “Emergency, Exception and Normalcy,” the contributors discuss the practices and methods that could be used to help legitimize the use of emergency powers without compromising the constitutional principles that were created during a period of normalcy. In Part II, “Terrorism and Warfare,” the contributors assess how constitutions are interpreted during times of war, focusing on the tension between individual rights and safety. Part III, “Public Hea...
The Currency of Solidarity
Analyses the European Union's constitutional transformation during the euro crisis, especially the interaction between politics and the ECJ in its materialization.
Lawful by Design
Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Universitèat Mèunster, 2021).
