Overview
- First comprehensive study of paradigmatic American Supreme Court cases on national emergency since Clinton Rossiter's renowned book Constitutional Dictatorship from 1948
- Discusses the crucial question every democracy faces in times of peril: how to deal effectively with a national security threat without compromising the very liberal values we set out to defend
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents(9 chapters)
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Three Models of Emergency Law
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Emergency Law in the Context of Terrorism
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Emily Hartz
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: From the American Civil War to the War on Terror
Book Subtitle: Three Models of Emergency Law in the United States Supreme Court
Authors: Emily Hartz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32633-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-32632-5Published: 12 December 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-42700-8Published: 29 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-32633-2Published: 13 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 114
Topics: Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Constitutional Law, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law