When Governments Break the Law – The Rule of Law and the Prosecution of the Bush Administration
Autor Austin Sarat, Nasser Hussainen Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 oct 2010
Using this debate as its jumping off point, When Governments Break the Law takes an interdisciplinary approach to the legal challenges posed by the criminal wrongdoing of governments. But this book is not an indictment of the Bush Administration; rather, the contributors take distinct positions for and against the proposition, offering revealing reasons and illuminating alternatives. The contributors do not ask the substantive question of whether any Bush Administration officials, in fact, violated the law, but rather the procedural, legal, political, and cultural questions of what it would mean either to pursue criminal prosecutions or to refuse to do so. By presuming that officials could be prosecuted, these essays address whether they should.
When Governments Break the Law provides a valuable and timely commentary on what is likely to be an ongoing process of understanding the relationship between politics and the rule of law in times of crisis.
Contributors: Claire Finkelstein, Lisa Hajjar, Daniel Herwitz, Stephen Holmes, Paul Horwitz, Nasser Hussain, Austin Sarat, and Stephen I. Vladeck. "
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780814739853
ISBN-10: 0814739857
Pagini: 234
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MI – New York University
ISBN-10: 0814739857
Pagini: 234
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MI – New York University
Cuprins
Contents; Acknowledgments vii; Introduction: Responding to Government Lawlessness: What Does the Rule of Law Require? 1; Nasser Hussain and Austin Sarat; 1. Vindicating the Rule of Law: Prosecuting Freeriders on Human Rights 56; Claire Finkelstein; 2. Guantanamo in the Province of The Hague? 106; Daniel Herwitz; 3. Universal Jurisdiction as Praxis: The Best Option for Legal Accountability for Superpower Torturers 130; Lisa Hajjar; 4. Breaking Through the Spiders Web: How Government lawbreakers Ring impunity from Law 178; Stephen Holmes; 5. Democracy as the Rule of Law 224; Paul Horwitz; 6. Justice Jackson, the Memory of Internment, and the Rule of Law After the Bush Administration 267; Stephen I. Vladeck; About the Contributors 316; Index
Recenzii
While we think of the crimes of the Bush-Cheney administration as lying somewhere in the past, the aggressive wars, warrantless spying, lawless imprisonment, and torture continue. This collection looks deeply into one likely way to end these crimes, namely enforcing the laws against them. Included are serious and informed voices both for and against prosecution. David Swanson, author of Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union
Notă biografică
Austin Sarat (Editor)
Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He has written or edited dozens of books, including Lethal Injection and the False Promise of Humane Execution, Law's Infamy: Understanding the Canon of Bad Law, and Cause Lawyering: Political Commitments and Professional Responsibilities and Cause Lawyering and the State in a Global Era, which won the 2004 Reginald Heber Smith Book Award. Nasser Hussain (Editor)
Nasser Hussain is Associate Professor in the Department of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College. He is the author of The Jurisprudence of Emergency: Colonialism and the Rule of Law.
Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He has written or edited dozens of books, including Lethal Injection and the False Promise of Humane Execution, Law's Infamy: Understanding the Canon of Bad Law, and Cause Lawyering: Political Commitments and Professional Responsibilities and Cause Lawyering and the State in a Global Era, which won the 2004 Reginald Heber Smith Book Award. Nasser Hussain (Editor)
Nasser Hussain is Associate Professor in the Department of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College. He is the author of The Jurisprudence of Emergency: Colonialism and the Rule of Law.
Descriere
Takes an interdisciplinary approach to the legal challenges posed by the criminal wrongdoing of governments