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Emergency powers in Asia : exploring the limits of legality
Title
Emergency powers in Asia : exploring the limits of legality / edited by Victor V. Ramraj, Arun K. Thiruvengadam.
ISBN
9780521768900 (hardback)
052176890X (hardback)
Published
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Physical Description
xii, 517 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary
"What is the relevance of contemporary debates over emergency powers for countries situated in Asia? What role does, and should, the constitution play in constraining these powers? The essays in this collection address these issues, drawing on emergency situations in over 20 countries in Asia as a ready-made laboratory for exploring the relationship between emergency powers and constitutionalism. This volume therefore rests squarely at the intersection of two debates - a debate over the ability of law to constrain the invocation and use of emergency powers by the executive in times of crisis, and a debate over the nature and viability of constitutionalism in Asia. At this intersection are fundamental questions about constitutionalism and the nature of the modern state, questions that invite legal, political, sociological and historical analysis"--Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 18, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : emergency powers and constitutionalism in Asia / Victor V. Ramraj and Arun K. Thiruvengadam
The emergency powers paradox / Victor V. Ramraj
Emergency powers, constitutionalism and legal transplants : the East Asian experience / Albert H.Y. Chen
Constitution and 'extraconstitution' : colonial emergency regimes in postcolonial India and Pakistan / Anil Kalhan
The princely impostor : stories of law and pathology in the exercise of emergency powers / Vasuki Nesiah
From Myanmar to Manila : a brief study of emergency powers in Southeast Asia / Kevin Y.L. Tan
Discourses of emergency in colonial and postcolonial Burma / Maitrii Augn-Thwin
Emergency and Islamic law in Aceh / Michelle Ann Miller and R. Michael Feener
UNaccountable? : the United Nations, emergency powers and the rule of law in Asia / Simon Chesterman
Emergency powers and the rule of law in Indonesia / Nadirsyah Hosen
Emergency powers with a moustache : special powers, military rule and evolving constitutionalism in Thailand / Andrew Harding
Emergency powers and the limits of constitutionalism in Japan / Mark Fenwick
States of exception in an exceptional state : emergency powers law in China / Jacques DeLisle
Constitutionalised emergency powers : a plague on Asian constitutionalism? / H.P. Lee
Political emergencies in the Philippines : changing labels and the unchanging need for legitimacy / Raul C. Pangalangan
Islamism as a response to emergency rule in Pakistan : the surprising proposal of Justice A.R. Cornelius / Clark B. Lombardi
Asian judiciaries and emergency powers : reasons for optimism? / Arun K. Thiruvengadam.
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