Honorable Mention, 2017 Yonathan Shapiro Award for Best Book in Israel Studies presented by the Association for Israel Studies
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 and emergency are mutually reinforcing paradigms that compensate for each other’s shortcomings. Through a careful dissection of Israel’s emergency apparatus, Mehozay illustrates that the reach of Israel’s emergency regime goes beyond defending the state and its people against acts of terror. In fact, that apparatus has had a far greater impact on Israel’s governing system, and society as a whole, than has traditionally been understood. Mehozay pushes us to think about emergency powers beyond the ‘war on terror’ and consider the role of emergency with regard to realms such as political economy.
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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: The Co-Constitution of Law and Emergency
2. Israel’s Legal-Political System: A Fluid Structure
3. Fluid Emergency Legal Sources
4. Practicing Fluidity I: The Complementary Relationship between Israel’s Emergency Legal Sources
5. Practicing Fluidity II: Emergency Powers for Economic and Financial Ends
6. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Over de auteur
Yoav Mehozay is Assistant Professor of Criminology at the University of Haifa, Israel.
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