Unleashing the Force of Law: Legal Mobilization, National Security, and Basic Freedoms

by Devyani Prabhat

Book Overview

Basic freedoms cannot be abandoned in times of conflict, or can they? Are basic freedoms routinely forsaken during times when there are national security concerns? These questions present different conundrums for the legal profession, which generally values basic freedoms but is also part of the architecture of emergency legal frameworks.

Unleashing the Force of Law uses multi-jurisdiction empirical data and draws on cause lawyering,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349928119
• ISBN13: 9781349928118
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"