Emergency powers in Asia : exploring the limits of legality

Author(s)

• Ramraj, Victor Vridar
• Thiruvengadam, Arun K.

Bibliographic Information

Emergency powers in Asia : exploring the limits of legality

edited by Victor V. Ramraj, Arun K. Thiruvengadam

Cambridge University Press, 2010

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

• 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

• NCID: BB00708027
• ISBN:
  • 9780521768900
• LCCN: 2009043744
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, UK
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 517 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : KNC956
  • DC22 : 342.5/0412
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : War and emergency powers -- Asia