Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts
In Terror in the Balance, Posner and Vermeule take on civil libertarians of both the left and the right, arguing that the government should be given wide latitude to adjust policy and liberties in the times of emergency. They emphasize the virtues of unilateral executive actions and argue for making extensive powers available to the executive as warranted. The judiciary should neither second-guess security policy nor interfere on constitutional grounds. In order to protect citizens, government can and should use any legal instrument that is warranted under ordinary cost-benefit analysis. The value gained from the increase in security will exc…
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Weitere Autoren: Vermeule, Adrian
- ISBN: 978-0-19-531025-2
- EAN: 9780195310252
- Produktnummer: 22403334
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B16.6 cm x D2.6 cm 612 g
- Gewicht: 612
Über den Autor
Eric A. Posner is Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, University of Chicago. He co-authored The Limits of International Law and New Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis, authored Law and Social Norms, and edits the Journal of Legal Studies. Adrian Vermeule is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is the author of Judging under Uncertainty: An Institutional Theory of LegalInterpretation.
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