Sovereignty, emergency, legality

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Label

Sovereignty, emergency, legality

Statement of responsibility

edited by Austin Sarat

Contributor

• Sarat, Austin

Editor

• Sarat, Austin

Subject

• Constitutional law
• Democracy
• Milligan, Lambdin P
• Rule of law
• Sovereignty
• War and emergency legislation

Language

eng

Summary

It is widely recognized that times of national emergency put legality to its greatest test. In such times we rely on sovereign power to rescue us, to hold the danger at bay. Yet that power can and often does threaten the values of legality itself. Sovereignty, Emergency, Legality examines law's complex relationship to sovereign power and emergency conditions. It puts today's responses to emergency in historical and institutional context, reminding readers of the continuities and discontinuities in the ways emergencies are framed and understood at different times and in different situations. And, in all this, it suggests the need to be less abstract in the way we discuss sovereignty, emergency, and legality. This book concentrates on officials and the choices they make in defining, anticipating, and responding to conditions of emergency as well as the impact of their choices on embodied subjects, whether citizen or stranger

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Index

index present

LC call number

K3344

LC item number

.S68 2010

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries