Legality in a time of emergency

Dyzenhaus, David

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“…One contribution in this collection does focus on the Nazi-related example on which the debate is based; David Dyzenhaus' revisitation of the case of the grudge informer [12]. Dyzenhaus has written extensively on the nature of wicked law and emergency situations [see 10,11,13], but this piece, too, best serves to illustrate how remote Nazi law actually was from the Hart-Fuller debate. The grudge informer cases, of which the case discussed by Hart and Fuller is one example, took place in the post-Nazi context and were about Germans who informed on their partner to the Nazi authorities for violating draconian legal provisions, in order to get rid of them, 1 rather than about the nature of Nazi law itself.…”

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The Distorted Jurisprudential Discourse of Nazi Law: Uncovering the ‘Rupture Thesis’ in the Anglo-American Legal Academy

Lavis

2018

Int J Semiot Law

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It has been remarked that the 'rupture thesis' prevails within the AngloAmerican legal academy in its understanding of the legal system in Nazi Germany. This article explores the existence and origins of this idea-that 'Nazi law' represented an aberration from normal legal-historical development with a point of rupture persisting between it and the 'normal' or central concept of law-within jurisprudential discourse in order to illustrate the prevalence of a distorted (mis)representation of Nazi law and how this distortion is manifested within the discourse today. An analysis of the treatment of Nazi law in two major 50th anniversary publications about the 1958 Hart-Fuller debate, and a review of representations of the Third Reich within literature from the current discourse, demonstrates that the rupture thesis continues to be reproduced within jurisprudence. An examination of the role of Nazi law in the Hart-Fuller debate itself shows that it can be traced back to the debate, where it was constructed through a combination of conceptual determinism and historical omission. It concludes that the historical Nazi law has great significance for the concept of law, but neither positivism nor natural law has properly theorised the nature of the real Nazi legal system.

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Section: Representing Nazi Law In the Nyulr Symposiummentioning

confidence: 99%

The Distorted Jurisprudential Discourse of Nazi Law: Uncovering the ‘Rupture Thesis’ in the Anglo-American Legal Academy

Lavis

2018

Int J Semiot Law

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“…That is, the reelection probability is higher if the executive is more successful in preventing a terrorist attack, a result that has received empirical support. 14 We use a simple probabilistic voting rule for the representative citizen because our primary focus is to assess the security rationale for executive discretion, which presumes that increased electoral incentives to prevent a terrorist attack induce the executive to choose optimal security policies. In the Appendix, we provide a micro-foundation for our reelection rule in a framework in which the policy outcome provides information about an unknown level of executive's competence to prevent terrorist attacks and in which the representative citizen is prospectively rational in the sense that her goal is to maximize future utility.…”

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The Rule of Law in the Fight against Terrorism

Dragu

Polborn

2013

American J Political Sci

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What is the role of legal limits on executive power, if any, when citizens demand more security from terrorism and allowing executive officials legal flexibility of action appears necessary to achieve it? We develop a game-theoretic model to show that when the executive faces increased electoral incentives to provide security and has legal flexibility to choose any policy it finds optimal, security from terrorism can actually decrease. In contrast, when the executive faces increased electoral incentives to provide security and there is an explicit legal limit on executive counterterrorism activities, security from terrorism increases. We also show that the executive achieves the objective of terrorism prevention more effectively when there are some limitations on its counterterrorism powers. The article provides a security rationale for legal limits on executive power and has implications for understanding how to design the institutional structure of liberal governments when the social objective is terrorism prevention.

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“…De notre point de vue, le contrôle de l'immigration au Canada peut être adéquatement décrit comme un état d'exception continu et toujours sous l'autorité de la loi, comme une sorte de zone grise (Dyzenhaus, 2006 ;Vermeule, 2009) dans laquelle les contraintes qui pèsent sur l'action ministérielle sont si faibles qu'elles permettent au gouvernement d'agir non seulement comme bon lui semble, mais souvent aussi avec l'approbation d'un tribunal. Nous mettrons plus spécifi quement l'accent sur la composante judiciaire du contrôle de l'immigration 7 , en montrant comment les événements sont traduits et connaissent une mise en forme pénale spécifi que à la Commission de l'immigration et du statut de réfugié (CISR), mais aussi comment ce type de punition se distingue des formes classiques de châtiments qu'on retrouve dans le droit pénal.…”

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Au-delà de la criminalisation : l’immigration et les enjeux pour la criminologie

Velloso

2013

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Le but de cet article est de discuter de l’importance croissante des punitions administratives dans le champ pénal, à partir de la judiciarisation des conflits d’immigration au Canada. À l’aide d’une analyse documentaire et des résultats d’une enquête de terrain menée à la Commission de l’immigration et du statut de réfugié du Canada entre 2007 et 2009, nous présenterons certaines caractéristiques de la mise en forme des litiges en droit de l’immigration et de leur façon de punir et nous soutiendrons que celles-ci diffèrent substantiellement de celles propres à la mise en forme pénale. Notre objectif ultime consistera à problématiser l’idée de criminalisation de l’immigration comme une catégorie capable de nuancer la complexité des formes de réaction sociale administratives. Nous suggérerons qu’il faut plutôt appréhender la punition en droit administratif comme telle (mesures de police et sanctions administratives) et repenser son rôle au sein du champ pénal, et ce, afin de mieux comprendre l’ensemble des réactions sociales dans les différentes institutions juridico-politiques, l’interaction et la complémentarité de celles-ci ainsi que leurs logiques de gouvernance, de mise en forme et leurs implications sociales.

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Legality in a time of emergency

Cited by 11 publications

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The Distorted Jurisprudential Discourse of Nazi Law: Uncovering the ‘Rupture Thesis’ in the Anglo-American Legal Academy

The Distorted Jurisprudential Discourse of Nazi Law: Uncovering the ‘Rupture Thesis’ in the Anglo-American Legal Academy

The Rule of Law in the Fight against Terrorism

Au-delà de la criminalisation : l’immigration et les enjeux pour la criminologie

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