Author Description

"[This book] offers diverse, international perspectives on how the rule of law shifts in times of emergency and the resultant heightened threats to security. It addresses issues of individual rights within the context of questioning how government works and ought to work in light of serious security concerns--thereby enabling readers to understand how national security concerns have distorted constitutions and impinged on human and civil rights. Five thematic sections examine: how different constitutional structures handle security concerns; what parts of government determine security measures and their limits; what constraints supranational and international law place on individual nations in regards to security; what the public has a right to know in times of heightened security; what rights the public can exercise in times of heightened security and how citizens can hold government accountable for protecting these rights"--