JJUA54039U States of Emergency, Emergency Powers, and Liberal Democracy
This course will examine different theories of emergency powers within liberal constitutional democracies, with reference to domestic legal orders and international law. Emergency situations to be considered may range from political turmoil to insurgencies and war, as well as international terrorism and mass flows of migrants. Focus will be on how different responses to such crises challenge constitutional norms, the rule of law, and individual rights. In addition to examining positive legal standards and actual emergency scenarios, both recent and historical, this course will also consider theoretical paradigms of emergency powers. To this end, readings will include: a variety of constitutional provisions, legislation and court judgments from different national jurisdictions, treaties and other international legal materials, historical accounts of crisis events, news about current world affairs, and secondary academic literature on the subject.
- Identify and analyze complex and concrete legal
problems surrounding emergency powers in legal, theoretical, and
historical contexts;
- Present the wider policy and legal arguments behind
different theoretical models of emergency powers;
- Put controversies about States responses to national
crises into historical, national, and international
perspective, in order to test the relevance of different
emergency powers theories;
- Analyze the impact of different emergency powers upon
the concept of liberal democracy and the rule of law,
consider their links to illiberal or authoritarian
regimes, and understand their relationships to the nature
of the State itself;
- Argue carefully and logically for and against specific
legal positions in factual context, present the
theoretical foundations for those arguments, and make reasoned
choices in terms of public policy;
- Formulate and communicate ideas and legal issues;
- Utilize international and foreign legal materials, and
historical accounts, in a coherent, competent, and professional
way.
- Category
- Hours
- Preparation
- 241
- Seminar
- 34
- Total
- 275
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information
- Credit
- 10 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Written examination, 1 dayAssigned individual written assignment, 1 day
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
- Exam period
26 May - 27 May, 2016
- Re-exam
1 August - 2 August, 2016
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- JJUA54039U
- Credit
- 10 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree MasterFull Degree Master choice
- Duration
- 1 semester
- Placement
- Spring
- Schedule
- A2
- Continuing and further education
- Price
DKK 10.000
- Study board
- Law
Contracting department
- Law
Course responsibles
- Christopher David Jenkins (13-6f6c81746f397570797674797e4b75807d397680396f76)