The establishment of constitutional review in transitional and nondemocratic regimes has
drawn attention to courts in nondemocratic states. Typically, authoritarian leaders treat law …

Security has always been a core function of the modern state. Yet the rise of the Preventive
State captures an intensification of that role as threats to security and demands for public …

This book is concerned with the ways in which the problem of security is thought about and
promoted by a range of actors and agencies in the public, private and nongovernmental …

Despite numerous efforts since the 1920s, the international community has failed to define
or criminalize 'terrorism'in international law. This book first explores the policy reasons for …

This book examines how western liberal states are progressively restricting access to
refugees and asylum seekers, even though these states have signed international …

This book examines a series of questions associated with the increasing application and
implications of biometrics in contemporary everyday life. In the wake of the events of 9/11 …

The article reports on the revival of scholarly interests in the perennial question of how
emergency power can be made to conform to the rule of law. With only slight delay …

Taking its cue from Deleuze’ s reading of Foucault’ s notion of apparatus (dispositif),
this article explores the assemblage of mechanisms, institutions, discourses and practices …

This article focuses on the effects of the World Trade Center terrorist attacks on Canadian
immigration and refugee policy. After a glimpse at shifts in media coverage and public …

What makes a terrorist? Is an individual inherently predisposed to be attracted to political
violence or does exposure to a certain environment desensitize them in such a way that …