Table of contents
1. No doctrine more pernicious? Emergencies and the limits of legality Victor V. Ramraj;
Part I. Legality and Extralegality:
2. The compulsion of legality David Dyzenhaus;
3. Extralegality and the ethic of political responsibility Oren Gross;
Part II. Conceptual and Normative Theories:
4. Emergency logic: prudence, morality, and the rule of law Terry Nardin;
5. Indefinite detention: rule by law or rule of law? R. Rueban Balasubramaniam;
Part III. Political and Sociological Theories:
6. The political constitution of emergency powers: some conceptual issues Mark Tushnet;
7. A topography of emergency power Nomi Claire Lazar;
8. Law, terror and social movements: the repression-mobilisation nexus Colm Campbell;
Part IV. Prospective Constraints on State Power:
9. Emergency strategies for prescriptive legal positivists: anti-terrorist law and legal theory Tom Campbell;
10. Ordinary laws for emergencies and democratic derogation from rights Kent Roach;
11. Presidentialism and emergency government William E. Scheuerman;
Part V. Judicial Responses to Official Disobedience:
12. Necessity, torture and the rule of law A. P. Simester;
13. Deny everything: intelligence activities and the rule of law Simon Chesterman;
Part VI. Post-Colonial and International Perspectives:
14. Exceptions, bare life and colonialism Johan Geertsema;
15. Struggle over legality in the midnight hour: governing the international state of emergency Kanishka Jayasuriya;
16. Inter arma silent leges? Black hole theories of the laws of war C. L. Lim.