Unleashing the Force of Law: Legal Mobilization, National Security, and Basic Freedoms

by Devyani Prabhat

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137455758
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	03/18/2016
Series:	Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	335 KB

About the Author

Devyani Prabhat is a Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Bristol, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Introduction
PART I: POLITICAL CONTEXT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AND THE JURIDICAL FIELD
2. Counter-terror Measures and Challenges in Law
3. Security, Exceptionalism, and the Rule of Law
PART II: NATURE AND EXTENT OF LEGAL MOBILIZATION
4. The Guantánamo Bay Juridical Field
5. Legal Mobilization and Motivations 
6. The 80s Northern Irish Juridical Field 
7. The Post-9/11 English and Northern Irish Juridical Fields
PART III: STRATEGIES AND OUTCOMES OF LEGAL MOBILIZATION
8. Legal Formalism and the Right to Liberty 
9. Process and Substance in Outcomes
PART IV: CONCLUSION
10. The Force of Law Unleashed?

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It is superb … a model piece of comparative legal sociology, addressing a really important set of questions.' Steven Lukes, New York University, USA

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This book won the Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 2017

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