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Secrecy, national security and the vindication of constitutional law / edited by David Cole, Federico Fabbrini, Arianna Vedaschi.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constitutional law.
- Terrorism--Prevention.
- Terrorism.
- Official secrets.
- National security.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (368 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar Pub., 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Virtually every nation has had to confront tensions between the rule-of-law demands for transparency and accountability and the need for confidentiality with respect to terrorism and national security. This book provides a global and comparative overview of the implications of governmental secrecy in a variety of contexts. Expert contributors from around the world discuss the dilemmas posed by the necessity for - and evils of - secrecy, and assess constitutional mechanisms for checking the abuse of secrecy by national and international institutions in the field of counter-terrorism. In recent
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Secrecy and courts
- pt. 2. Secrecy and legislatures
- pt. 3. Secrecy and detention
- pt. 4. Secrecy and criminal trials
- pt. 5. Secrecy and administrative measures.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-78195-386-4
- OCLC:
- 854973543
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