Law in Times of Crisis(ISBN=9780521541237)
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the ensuing'war on terror' have focused attention on issues that havepreviously lurked in a dark corner at the edge of the legaluniverse. This book presents a systematic and comprehensive attemptby legal scholars to conceptualize the theory of emergency powers,combining post-September 11 developments with more generaltheoretical, historical and comparative perspectives. The authorsexamine the interface between law and violent crises throughhistory and across jurisdictions, bringing together insightsgleaned from the Roman republic and Jewish law through to theinitial responses to the July 2005 attacks in London. Three modelsof emergency powers are used to offer a conceptualization ofemergency regimes, giving a coherent insight into law's interfacewith and regulation of crisis and a distinctive means to evaluatethe legal options open to states for dealing with crises.
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