The Constitution of Law : Legality in a Time of Emergency

Dyzenhaus deals with the urgent question of how governments should respond to emergencies and terrorism by exploring the idea that there is an unwritten constitution of law, exemplified in the common law constitution of Commonwealth countries. He looks mainly to cases decided in the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada to demonstrate that even in the absence of an entrenched bill of rights, the law provides a moral resource that can inform a rule-of-law project capable of responding to situations which place legal and political order under great stress. Those cases are discussed against a backdrop of recent writing and judicial decisions in the United States of America in order to show that the issues are not confined to the Commonwealth. The author argues that the rule-of-law project is one in which judges play an important role, but which also requires the participation of the legislature and the executive. COVER......Page 1 HALF-TITLE......Page 3 TITLE......Page 5 COPYRIGHT......Page 6 DEDICATION......Page 7 CONTENTS......Page 9 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 11 TABLE OF CASES......Page 13 TABLE OF STATUTES......Page 16 Introduction......Page 19 Introduction......Page 35 Judges and the politics of the rule of law......Page 38 Carl Schmitt’s challenge......Page 53 Parliamentary or judicial supremacy?......Page 72 The moral resources of law......Page 78 Constitutional positivism......Page 84 The Communist Party case......Page 90 Canada’s common law bill of rights......Page 105 Anxiety about judicial review of legislation......Page 107 Disobeying Parliament......Page 120 Evisceration......Page 125 Reconciliation......Page 126 Deference......Page 136 Recognizing rationality......Page 139 Maintaining the rule of law......Page 147 Emerging from the shadows......Page 167 In the black hole......Page 178 Introduction......Page 192 The Belmarsh decision......Page 193 Refuting dualism......Page 208 Black holes and the rule of law......Page 214 The rule of good law......Page 238 BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 252 INDEX......Page 260 Legality in a time of emergency Constituting the legislature Taking the administrative state seriously Unity of public law. David Dyzenhaus. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 234-241) And Index.