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Unleashing the Force of Law: Legal Mobilization, National Security, and Basic Freedoms
Devyani Prabhat
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Description for Unleashing the Force of Law: Legal Mobilization, National Security, and Basic Freedoms
Hardback. An interdisciplinary, comparative study of the work of lawyers for civil liberties and basic freedoms, integrating socio-legal theoretical frameworks with insights from political lawyering and social movement literature, in order to trace the professionalization of human rights work and analyse the possibilities and limitations of the rule of law. Series: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: LAM; LAQ; LNDC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 213 x 18. Weight in Grams: 494.
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, political lawyering and Bourdieusian juridical field literature to analyze the invocation of legal norms aimed at the protection of basic freedoms in times of national security tensions. It asks three main questions about ... Read more
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, political lawyering and Bourdieusian juridical field literature to analyze the invocation of legal norms aimed at the protection of basic freedoms in times of national security tensions. It asks three main questions about ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
Number of Pages
225
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137455734
SKU
V9781137455734
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About Devyani Prabhat
Devyani Prabhat is a Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Bristol, UK.
Reviews for Unleashing the Force of Law: Legal Mobilization, National Security, and Basic Freedoms
'It is superb ... a model piece of comparative legal sociology, addressing a really important set of questions.' Steven Lukes, New York University, USA