Tushnet / Devins / Graber The Constitution in Wartime

Beyond Alarmism and Complacency
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8690-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Reihe: Constitutional Conflicts

Essays by leading constitutional scholars on the relationship between war powers and the Constitution in general and in the aftermath of September 11th.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tushnet, Mark

Devins, Neal

Graber, Mark A.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Brandon, Mark E.

Posner, Eric A.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1

Part I

War and the American Constitutional Order / Mark E. Brandon 11

Emergencies and the Idea of Constitutionalism / Mark Tushnet 39

Accomodating Emergencies / Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule 55

Part II

Counter-Stories: Maintaining and Expanding Civil Liberties in Wartime / Mark A. Graber 95

Defending Korematsu? Reflections on Civil Liberties in Wartime / Mark Tushnet 124

Part III

The War Powers outside the Courts / William Michael Treanor 143

Between Civil Libertarianism and Executive Unilateralism: An Institutional Process Approach to Rights during Wartime / Samuel Issacharoff and Richard H. Pildes 161

Realizing Constitutional and International Norms in the Wake of September 11 / Peter J. Spiro 198

Part IV

The War of Terrorism and the End of Human Rights / David Luban 219

War, Crisis and the Constitution / Sotirios A. Barber and James E. Fleming 232

Afterword: The Supreme Court's 2004 Decisions / Mark Tushnet 249

About the Contributors 255

Index 257

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Tushnet is Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown University Law Center. His many books include A Court Divided: The Rehnquist Court and the Future of Constitutional Law, The New Constitutional Order, Slave Law in the American South: State v. Mann in History and Literature, and Taking the Constitution Away from the Courts.