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The Jurisprudence of Emergency: Colonialism and the Rule of Law (Law, Meaning, and Violence)
Nasser Hussain
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Description for The Jurisprudence of Emergency: Colonialism and the Rule of Law (Law, Meaning, and Violence)
Hardcover. Explores the intricate and delicate relationship between the concepts of a rule of law and emergency Series: Law, Meaning & Violence. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HBTQ; HBTR; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 463.
Hussain analyses the uses and the history of a range of emergency powers, such as the suspension of habeas corpus and the use of military tribunals. His study focuses on British colonialism in India from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century to demonstrate how questions of law and emergency shaped colonial rule, which in turn affected the place of colonialism in modern law, depicting the colonies not as passive recipients but as agents in the interpretation and delineation of Western ideas and practices.
Hussain analyses the uses and the history of a range of emergency powers, such as the suspension of habeas corpus and the use of military tribunals. His study focuses on British colonialism in India from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century to demonstrate how questions of law and emergency shaped colonial rule, which in turn affected the place of colonialism in modern law, depicting the colonies not as passive recipients but as agents in the interpretation and delineation of Western ideas and practices.
Product Details
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Series
Law, Meaning & Violence
Condition
New
Weight
479g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472113286
SKU
V9780472113286
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99-50
About Nasser Hussain
Nasser Hussain is Assistant Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College.
Reviews for The Jurisprudence of Emergency: Colonialism and the Rule of Law (Law, Meaning, and Violence)
Rarely have scrupulous scholarship and felicity of expression been so successfully combined. The detailed 'cases' in the three major chapters are set within and effectively underpin a theoretical project of great significance . . . at the forefront of concerns with law and the postcolonial. -Peter Fitzpatrick, School of Law, Birkbeck College, London . . ... Read more