Reconceptualizing state of exception : European lessons from the pandemic

• Other Authors: Sarat, Austin (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2024.
• Series: Studies in law, politics, and society (Emerald Group Publishing) ; 90.
• Subjects: COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- > Influence.; War and emergency legislation > Europe.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781836082002
• DOI: 10.1108/S1059-4337202490
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (112 pages).

This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society contributes to a nuanced understanding and exploration of state of exception and emergency rule in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. The first chapter plunges us into the European perspective on the state of exception and emergency rule...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / Hanna-Mari Kivistö, Gonçalo Marcelo, and José María Rosales Chapter 1. A pandemic that never took place: discursivity, state of exception, and hyperreality / Iraklis Ioannidis
• Chapter 2. Sequestered cosmopolitanism: exception or new paradigm? / Marin Beros /
• Chapter 3. Checks and balances in times of pandemics: the Portuguese example / João Cruz Ribeiro
• Chapter 4. Finland and the Covid-19 pandemic: risks inherent in a restrained state of exception / Tatu Hyttinen and Saila Heinikoski
• Chapter 5. Constitutionalism and emergency rule: comparing Germany's and Spain's responses to the Covid-19 pandemic / José María Rosales.