dr. sc. Đorđe Gardašević
„States of Emergency“ in Comparative Constitutional Law
Examination: written
Course syllabus:
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Notion of States of Emergency (Roman institution of dictator; state of siege; martial
law; modern constitutional regulation of states of emergency)
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Constitutional consequences of States of Emergency (concentration of constitutional
authority; restrictions of basic human rights and fundamental freedoms)
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Classical Theories of States of Emergency (J. Locke, A. V. Dicey, C. Schmitt, C. L.
Rossiter, C. J. Friedrich)
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Contemporary Notion of States of Emergency and the “War on Terror” (United States
of America, France, Federal Republic of Germany)
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Modern American Normative Doctrines of States of Emergency
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States of Emergency in Practice – Selected Issues
Bibliography:
Gross, O, i Ní Aoláin, F., Law in Times of Crisis – Emergency Powers in Theory and
Practice, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2006.
Additional selected sources
1. Ackerman, B., Before the Next Attack (Preserving Civil Liberties in an Age of
Terrorism), Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2006.
2. Agamben, G., State of Exception, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and
London, 2005.
3. Baker, S. A., Kavanagh, J. (eds.), Patriot Debates (Experts Debate the USA PATRIOT
Act), American Bar Association Publishing, Chicago (2005).
4. Berkowitz, P. (ur.), Terrorism, the Laws of War, and the Constitution – Debating the
Enemy Combatant Cases, Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, Stanford
(2005).
5. Dicey, A.V. Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution, Liberty Classics,
Indianapolis, 1982.
6. Ferejohn, J. i Pasquino, P., The Law of the Exception: A Typology of Emergency
Powers, International Journal of Constitutional Law, vol. 2, number 2 (2004), str. 210239.
7. Finn, J. E., Constitutions in Crisis – Political Violence and the Rule of Law, Oxford
University Press, New York, 1991.
8. Friedrich, C. J., Constitutional Government and Democracy – Theory and Practice in
Europe and America, Fourth Edition, Blaisdell Publishing Company (A Division of
Ginn and Company), Waltham, Massachusetts – Toronto – London, 1968.
9. Issacharoff, S. i Pildes, R. H., Emergency contexts without emergency powers: The
United States’ constitutional approach to rights during wartime, International Journal
of Constitutional Law, Vol. 2 (2004), str. 296-333.
10. Lobel, J., Emergency Power and the Decline of Liberalism, 98 Yale. L. J. 1385 (19881989), str. 1385-1433.
11. Locke, J., The Works of John Locke in Nine Volumes, 12th ed., Rivington, London,
1824, vol. 4.
12. Posner, E.A. i Vermeule, A. Terror in the Balance – Security, Liberty and the Courts,
Oxford University Press, New York, 2007.
13. Posner, R. A. Not a Suicide Pact – the Constitution in a Time of National Emergency,
Oxford University Press, New York, 2006.
14. Rosenfeld, M., Judicial Balancing in Times of Stress: Comparing the American,
British, and Israeli approaches to the War on Terror, 27 Cardozo Law Review 2079
(2006), na str. 2079-2151.
15. Rossiter, C. L., Constitutional Dictatorship – Crisis Government in the Modern
Democracies, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1948.
16. Schmitt, C., Politische Theologie, Vier Kapitel zur Lehre von der Souvernität, Verlag
von Duncker und Humblot München und Leipzig (1934)
17. Stone, G. R., National Security v. Civil Liberties, 95 Cal. L. Rev. 2203 (2007), str.
2203-2212.
18. Stone, G. R., Perilous Rimes – Free Speech in Wartime (From the Sedition Act of
1798 to the War on Terrorism), W. W. Norton & Comp. Inc., New York, 2004.
19. Tushnet, M. (ed.), The Constitution in Wartime – Beyond Alarmism and Complacency,
Duke University Press, Duke & London, 2005.
20. Yoo, J., The Powers of War and Peace – the Constitution and Foreign Affairs after
9/11, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2006.