Karin Loevy

Emergencies in Public Law

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book challenges the traditional framing of emergency powers as 'exceptions' by illustrating their long-term legal and political effects.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 491g
• ISBN-13: 9781107560833
• ISBN-10: 1107560837
• Artikelnr.: 48096974

Autorenporträt

Karin Loevy is a research scholar with the Institute of International Law and Justice at New York University School of Law where she also manages the J.S.D. Program. Her work on the law and politics of emergencies has been published in such journals as the Asian Journal of International Law, Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, and the Journal of Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems. Previously, she worked as a litigator with a leading Israeli public law firm.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Theories of Containment: 1. An introduction to the
background theoretical problem: the paradox and its paradigmatic solutions;
2. The legacy of the models in the legal politics of emergencies; Part II.
Practices of Containment: 3. The legal politics of definitions: Article 15
derogations in the House of Lords; 4. The legal politics of authorization:
the Office of Legal Council (OLC) in the US executive and the Joint
Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) in the UK Parliament; 5. The legal
politics of jurisdiction: regional intervention in a domestic disaster,
Cyclone Nargis in 2008; 6. The legal politics of time and temporality:
ticking time in the Israeli Supreme Court; Part III. Consequences of
Containment: 7. The legal politics of change and continuity in emergencies;
8. Horizons of containment: a dialectic process story of emergencies and
change; Epilogue.