Emergencies and the limits of legality / / edited by Victor V. Ramraj [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782684303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2008
• ISBN: 1-107-20161-6; 0-511-55202-5; 0-511-48074-1; 0-511-47754-6; 0-511-47609-4; 0-511-47906-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 415 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 342/.0412
• Soggetti: War and emergency powers
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: No doctrine more pernicious? Emergencies and the limits of legality / Victor V. Ramraj -- The compulsion of legality / David Dyzenhaus -- Extra-legality and the ethic of political responsibility / Oren Gross -- Emergency logic : prudence, morality and the rule of law / Terry Nardin -- Indefinite detention : rule by law or rule of law? / R. Rueban Balasubramaniam -- The political constitution of emergency powers : some conceptual issues / Mark Tushnet -- A topography of emergency power / Nomi Claire Lazar -- Law, terror and social movements : the repression-mobilisation nexus / Colm Campbell -- Emergency strategies for prescriptive legal positivists : anti-terrorist law and legal theory / Tom Campbell -- Ordinary laws for emergencies and democratic derogation from rights / Kent Roach -- Presidentialism and emergency government / William E. Scheuerman -- Necessity, torture and the rule of law / A.P. Simester -- Deny everything : intelligence activities and the rule of law / Simon Chesterman -- Exceptions, bare life and colonialism / Johan Geertsema -- Struggle over legality in the midnight hour : governing the international state of emergency / Kanishka Jayasuriya -- Inter arma silent leges? Black hole theories of ; the laws of war / C.L. Lim.
• Sommario/riassunto: Most modern states turn swiftly to law in an emergency. The global response to the 11 September 2001 attacks on the United States was no exception, and the wave of legislative responses is well documented. Yet there is an ever-present danger, borne out by historical and contemporary events, that even the most well-meaning executive, armed with extraordinary powers, will abuse them. This inevitably leads to another common tendency in an emergency, to invoke law not only to empower the state but also in a bid to constrain it. Can law constrain the emergency state or must the state at times act outside the law when its existence is threatened? If it must act outside the law, is such conduct necessarily fatal to aspirations of legality? This collection of essays - at the intersection of legal, political and social theory and practice - explores law's capacity to constrain state power in times of crisis.

Exploring Individual and Organizational Boundaries : A Tavistock Open Systems Approach / / edited by W. Gordon Lawrence ; with a new foreword by Mannie Sher

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781270403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Taylor and Francis, , 2018
• ISBN: 0-429-91345-1; 9780429896912; 0-429-47445-8; 1-283-06805-2; 9786613068057; 1-84940-011-3
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 p.)
• Collana: Karnac classics
• Disciplina: 301.18/5; 301.185
• Soggetti: Group relations training; Small groups; Organizational behavior
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographies and index.
• Nota di contenuto: COVER; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Contents; Editorial Foreword to the Series; Preface; Foreword to this edition; Chapter 1 Introductory Essay : Exploring Boundaries; Chapter 2 Boundary Management in Psychological Work with Groups; chapter 3 The A. K. Rice Group Relations Conferences as a Reflection of Society; Chapter 4 The Pseudomutual Small Group or Institution; Chapter 5 Another Source of Conservatism in Groups; Chapter 6 Manifestations of Transference in Small Training Groups; Chapter 7 A Manager's View of the Institutional Event; Chapter 8 Men and Women at Work: A Group Relations Conference on Person and RoleChapter 9 By Women, for Women: A Group Relations Conference; Chapter 10 A Model for Distinguishing Supportive from Insight -oriented Psychotherapy Groups; Chapter 11 The Adolescent, the Family, and the Group : Boundary Considerations; Chapter 12 Learning and the Group Experience; Chapter 13 Darkness; Chapter 14 The Psychology of Innovation in an Industrial Setting; Chapter 15 Open Systems Revisited : A Proposition about Development and Change; Chapter 16 A Concept for Today: The Management of oneself in Role; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "One way of conceptualizing the relationship of individuals, through their roles, to their various groupings (such as families, communities, and business and industrial enterprises) is to consider their political relatedness. This includes an exploration of organizational structures, management, and issues of responsibility, leadership, and authority. Beyond this, the Tavistock open systems approach has always held that unconscious social processes are of central importance in such explorations. The methodology of the approach, therefore, is one that encourages people to consider the unconscious in relation to the political dimensions of institutions, This involves people in examine a range of boundaries, such as those between the inner and outer worlds of the individual, between person and role, and between enterprise and environment. Also involved are less obvious boundaries - or limits, or distinctions - such as those between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos, innovation and destructiveness, reality and fantasy, and relationship and relatedness.This volume, with a new foreword by Mannie Sher, describes the educational approach of the Tavistock open systems mode of group relations training for exploring and interpreting such boundary issues and problems. Examples of its application include family systems, rural developments, and organizational development. This volume should be of value to students and teachers of organizational analysis, training, and development, as well as to students and teachers of organizational psychology and sociology.This volume is one of a series being reissued by Karnac Books representing the theory and practice of organizational development used over many years at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations."--Provided by publisher.