The Rule of Crisis Terrorism, Emergency Legislation and the Rule of Law [Hardcover]

This book analyzes emergency legislations formed in response to terrorism. In recognition that different countries, with different legal traditions, have different solutions, it adopts a comparative point of view. The countries profiled include America, France, Israel, Poland, Germany and United Kingdom. 

The goal is not to offer judgment on one response or the other. Rather, the contributors offer a comprehensive and thoughtful examination of the entire concept. In the process, they draw attention to the inadaptability of traditional legal and philosophical categories in a new and changing political world. 

The contributors first criticize the idea of these legislations. They then go on to develop different models to respond to these crises. They build a general analytical framework by answering such questions as: What is an emergency legislation? What kinds of emergencies justify laws of this nature? Why is contemporary terrorism such a specific emergency justifying new laws? 

Using legal and philosophical reflections, this study looks at how we are changing society. Coverage also provides historical experiences of emergency legislations to further illustrate this point. In the end, readers will gain insight into the long-term consequences of these legislations and how they modify the very work of the rule of law. 

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Conceptual Analysis and Emergency Legislation.- Part I: Concepts and Justification of Emergency Legislations.- Chapter 3. Emergencies in Sober Hobbesianism.- Chapter 4. The State of Exception and the Terrorist Threat  An Obsolete Combination.- Chapter 5. The Continued Exceptionalism of the American Response to Daesh.- Chapter 6. Dignity, Emergency, Exception.- Part II: Risk and Failure of Emergency Legislations.- Chapter 7. Reconciling International Human Rights Law with Executlc0