ISBN:
9783642326332
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (116 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
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DDC:
342.73062
Keywords:
War and emergency legislation
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This book offers a systematic and comprehensive account of the key cases that have come to shape the jurisprudence on emergency law in the United States from the Civil War to the War on Terror. The legal questions raised in these cases concern fundamental constitutional issues such as the status of fundamental rights, the role of the court in times of war, and the question of how to interpret constitutional limitations to executive power. At stake in these difficult legal questions is the issue of how to conceive of the very status of law in liberal democratic states. The questions with which the Supreme Court justices have to grapple in these cases are therefore as philosophical as they are legal. In this book the Court's arguments are systematized according to categories informed by constitutional law as well as classic philosophical discussions of the problem of emergency. On this basis, the book singles out three legal paradigms for interpreting the problem of emergency: the rights model, the extra-legal model and the procedural model. This systematic approach helps the reader develop a philosophical and legal overview of central issues in the jurisprudence on emergency.
Abstract:
Intro -- From the American Civil War to the War on Terror -- Three Models of Emergency Law in the United States Supreme Court -- Foreword (Acknowledgments) -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- List of Cited Cases -- Part I: Three Models of Emergency Law -- Chapter 2: The Rights Model -- 2.1 Legal and Philosophical Articulations of the Rights Model -- 2.2 The Court´s Employment of the Rights Model in Ex Parte Milligan -- 2.3 Ex Parte Milligan and Inherent Difficulties of the Rights Model -- References -- List of Cited Cases -- Chapter 3: The Extralegal Model -- 3.1 Philosophical and Legal Articulations of the Extralegal Model -- 3.2 The Extralegal Model and the Japanese Internment Cases -- 3.3 Hirabayashi v. United States -- 3.4 Korematsu v. United States -- 3.5 Ex Parte Mitsuye Endo -- 3.6 Justice Jackson´s Critique of the Extralegal Model -- 3.7 The Extralegal Model and the Prize Cases -- References -- List of Cases -- Chapter 4: Procedural Model -- 4.1 Philosophical Articulations of the Procedural Model -- 4.2 The Procedural Model and Ex Parte Quirin -- 4.3 The Procedural Model and Youngstown -- 4.4 The Problematic Elasticity of the Procedural Model -- References -- List of Cases -- Part II: Emergency Law in the Context of Terrorism -- Chapter 5: Rasul v. Bush -- 5.1 Factual Background -- 5.2 Brief for Petitioners: A Limited Rights Model -- 5.3 Brief for Respondents: A Push Towards the Extralegal Model -- 5.4 The Opinion for the Court: A Reluctant Rights Model -- References -- List of Cases -- Chapter 6: Hamdi v. Rumsfeld -- 6.1 Factual Background -- 6.2 Opinion for the Court: A Partly Procedural Model -- 6.3 Dissenting Opinion I: The Rights Model Applied to United States Citizens -- 6.4 Dissenting Opinion II: A Push Towards the Extralegal Model -- List of Cases -- Chapter 7: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld -- 7.1 Factual Background.
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