Emergency Powers in Australia

Emergency Powers in Australia
Author: H. P. Lee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2018-11-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107166535

A lucid analysis of the constitutional and legal issues arising from Australian governmental responses to various sorts of emergencies.

Emergency Powers in Theory and Practice

Emergency Powers in Theory and Practice
Author: Michael Head
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2017-05-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1134795297

Why have the early years of the 21st century seen increasing use of emergency-type powers or claims of supra-legal executive authority, particularly by the Western countries regarded as the world's leading democracies, notably the United States? This book examines the extraordinary range of executive and prerogative powers, emergency legislation, martial law provisos and indemnities in countries with English-derived legal systems, primarily the UK, the US and Australia. The author challenges attempts by legal and academic theorists to relativise, rationalise, legitimise or propose supposedly safe limits for the use of emergency powers, especially since the September 2001 terrorist attacks. This volume also considers why the reputation of Carl Schmitt, the best-known champion of 'exceptional' dictatorial powers during the post-1919 Weimer Republic in Germany, and who later enthusiastically served and sanctified the Nazi dictatorship, is being rehabilitated, and examines why his totalitarian doctrines are thought to be of relevance to modern society. This diverse book will be of importance to politicians, the media, the legal profession, as well as academics and students of law, humanities and politics.

Emergency Law

Emergency Law
Author: Michael Eburn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1999
Genre: Emergency medical personnel
ISBN: 9781862873124

Empire, Emergency and International Law

Empire, Emergency and International Law
Author: John Reynolds
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2017-08-10
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107172519

This book analyses the states of emergency exposing the intersections between colonial law, international law, imperialism and racial discrimination.

Keywords in Australian Politics

Keywords in Australian Politics
Author: Rodney Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2006-06-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780521672832

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Public Accountability

Public Accountability
Author: Michael D. Dowdle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 43
Release: 2006-07-06
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0521852145

The most comprehensive survey to-date of how different organizations hold persons acting in the public interest to account.

Not a Suicide Pact

Not a Suicide Pact
Author: Richard A. Posner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2006-09
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0195304276

Many of the measures taken by the Bush administration since 9/11 have sparkedheated protests. Judge Richard A. Posner offers a cogent and elegant responseto these protests, arguing that personal liberty must be balanced with publicsafety in the face of grave national danger.

Emergency Powers

Emergency Powers
Author: H. P. Lee
Publisher: Lawbook Company
Total Pages: 334
Release: 1984-01-01
Genre: Legislative power
ISBN: 9780455202723

Australian Public Law

Australian Public Law
Author: Gabrielle Appleby
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Public law
ISBN: 9780195525656

Introduces students to key principles, concepts, institutions in Australian Public Law, provides solid foundation for study of constitutional & administrative law. Explained through analysis of mechanisms of power & control, including discussions of functioning of institutions of government & contemporary issues. Authors at Uni of Adelaide.

Emergency Powers in Australia

Emergency Powers in Australia
Author: H. P. Lee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 619
Release: 2018-11-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1316733106

Democratic countries, such as Australia, face the dilemma of preserving public and national security without sacrificing fundamental freedoms. In the context where the rule of law is an underlying assumption of the constitutional framework, Emergency Powers in Australia provides a succinct analysis of the sorts of emergency which have been experienced in Australia and an evaluation of the legal weapons available to the authorities to cope with these emergencies. It analyses the scope of the defence power to determine the constitutionality of federal legislation to deal with wartime crises and the 'war' on terrorism, the extent of the executive power and its relationship to the prerogative, the deployment of the defence forces in aid of the civil power, the statutory frameworks regulating the responses to civil unrest, and natural disasters. The role of the courts when faced with challenges to the invocation of emergency powers is explained and analysed.