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

Devyani Prabhat

ISBN13: 9781349928118

Published: February 2018

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Country of Publication: UK

Format: Paperback (Hardback in 2016)

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Hardback edition , ISBN13 9781137455734

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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.

Subjects:: Human Rights and Civil Liberties, Law and Society

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 Guantanamo 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?