The Law of Emergencies

• Author : Nan D. Hunter
• Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
• Release : 20 July 2009

The Law of Emergencies discusses the legal framework for disaster response and emergency management. The book engages with and debates some of the most important Constitutional issues of our time, such as the tension between civil liberties and national security. It also examines how the law of emergencies plays out in the context of real life emergencies where individuals often have to make split-second decisions. It analyzes legal authority at the federal, state and local levels, placing the issues in

• Author : Nan D. Hunter
• Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
• Release : 08 August 2017

The Law of Emergencies: Public Health and Disaster Management, Second Edition, introduces the American legal system as it interacts with disaster management, public health and civil unrest issues. Nan Hunter shows how the law in this area plays out in the context of real life emergencies where individuals often have to make split-second decisions. This book covers the major legal principles underlying emergency policy and operations and analyzes legal authority at the federal, state and local levels, placing the issues

• Author : Abhishek Singhvi,Khagesh Gautam
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 30 October 2020

This book presents a comprehensive legal and constitutional study of emergency powers from a comparative common law perspective. It is one of very few comparative studies on three jurisdictions and arguably the first one to explore in detail various emergency powers, statutory and common law, constitutional and statutory law, martial law and military acting-in-aid of civil authority, wartime and peacetime invocations, and several related and vital themes like judicial review of emergency powers (existence, scope and degree). The three jurisdictions

• Author : M. Ehteshamul Bari
• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
• Release : 06 July 2017

Introduction -- General issues concerning the powers of emergency and the evolution of these powers in the Indo-Pak-Bangladesh -- Suspension of the fundamental rights and the exercise of the power of preventive dentention during emergencies in the Indo-Pak-Bangladesh subcontinent -- Devising and developing a standard emergency model -- THe emergencies proclaimed in Bangladesh on five occasions from 1974 to 2007 and their justifiction -- Impact of the five proclamations of emergency in Bangladesh on the fundamental rights of individuals -- Preventive detention

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• Publisher : Cram101
• Release : 01 January 2013

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• Author : Karin Loevy
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 11 March 2016

This book challenges the traditional framing of emergency powers as 'exceptions' by illustrating their long-term legal and political effects.

• Author : Nicole Rogers
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 06 September 2021

This book addresses the ways in which the Black Summer megafires influenced the development of climate narratives throughout 2020. It analyses the global pandemic, and its ensuing restrictions, as a countervailing force in the production of such narratives. Lives and properties were lost in the spring and summer of 2019 and 2020, when catastrophic bushfires burnt through millions of hectares of mainland Australia. Nearly three billion native animals died. And for millions of Australians, and others worldwide, it was through the Australian megafires

• Author : Yoav Mehozay
• Publisher : SUNY Press
• Release : 20 October 2016

Raises concerns about the degree to which the rule of law and emergency powers have become fundamentally entangled, using Israel as a case study. Contemporary debates on states of emergency have focused on whether law can regulate emergency powers, if at all. These studies base their analyses on the premise that law and emergency are at odds with each other. In Between the Rule of Law and States of Emergency, Yoav Mehozay offers a fundamentally different approach, demonstrating that law

• Author : Gregory West
• Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
• Release : 21 April 2021

Legal Aspects of Emergency Services, Second Edition introduces members of fire and emergency medical services to the legal system in the United States, showing them how various types of laws affect their work in emergency services.

• Author : John Reynolds
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 10 August 2017

This book analyses the states of emergency exposing the intersections between colonial law, international law, imperialism and racial discrimination.

• Author : Alan Greene
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 05 April 2018

Permanent States of Emergency and the Rule of Law explores the impact that oxymoronic 'permanent' states of emergency have on the validity and effectiveness of constitutional norms and, ultimately, constituent power. It challenges the idea that many constitutional orders are facing permanent states of emergency due to the 'objective nature' of threats facing modern states today, arguing instead that the nature of a threat depends upon the subjective assessment of the decision-maker. In light of this, it further argues that

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Google Play
• Release : 23 March 2023

With the decree-laws adopted under state of emergency declared following the coup attempt on 15 July 2016, more than 125 thousand people have been dismissed their professions and more than three thousand organizations and institution have been closed down. As a grounds for the measures adopted for natural and real persons, it is shown that those who are considered to "have relation", "connection" or "contact" with terrorist organizations or structure/entities, organizations or groups established as engaging in activities against the national security

• Author : William C. Nicholson
• Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
• Release : 01 December 2013

This second edition is a major revision and update of Emergency Response and Emergency Management Law. As the first text to be published on emergency response and emergency management law this book provides an understanding of the legal challenges faced on a daily basis by the front-line troops in emergent situations. The emergency response law section begins with the duty to respond and proceeds through the wide range of legal issues that arise during response. Training accidents, vehicle issues, dispatch,

• Author : William C. Nicholson
• Publisher : Charles C. Thomas Publisher
• Release : 14 May 2014

As the first text to be published on emergency response and emergency management law, this book addresses important topics. First, emergency response law is considered with the goal of providing an understanding of the legal challenges faced on a daily basis by the front line troops in emergent situations. The emergency response law section begins with the duty to respond and proceeds through the wide range of legal issues that arise during response. Training accidents, vehicle issues, dispatch, Emergency Medical

• Author : Pierre Auriel,Olivier Beaud,Carl Wellman
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 17 March 2018

This book analyzes emergency legislations formed in response to terrorism. In recognition that different countries, with different legal traditions, have different solutions, it adopts a comparative point of view. The countries profiled include America, France, Israel, Poland, Germany and United Kingdom. The goal is not to offer judgment on one response or the other. Rather, the contributors offer a comprehensive and thoughtful examination of the entire concept. In the process, they draw attention to the inadaptability of traditional legal and