The Jurisprudence of Emergency examines British rule in India from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, tracing tensions between the ideology of

Dyzenhaus deals with the urgent question of how governments should respond to emergencies and terrorism by exploring the idea that there is an unwritten constit

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

What role does, and should, legal, political, and constitutional norms play in constraining emergency powers, in Asia and beyond.

The fundamental premise of this study is that where Constitutions, such as that of India and Pakistan, articulate legal norms which limit the scope of the execu