Summary
Author of The Jurisprudence of Emergency: Colonialism and the Rule of Law (University of Michigan Press, 2003) and of ‘Hyperlegality’, New Criminal Law Review 10, 4 (2007), cited by David Lloyd for the history of British emergency legislation and for Hyperlegality — the multiplication of laws and legal categories, rather than law’s suspension, that typifies the contemporary counter-terrorism state (Settler Colonialism and the State of Exception: The Example of Palestine/Israel, PDF p.14, 17 / printed p.72, 75).
Details
- What Saree Makdisi describes as ‘Israel’s hyperregulation of everyday life’ “conforms to what Nasser Hussain has termed the regime of hyperlegality that typifies the contemporary counter-terrorism state: the multiplication of laws and legal categories rather than the state of anomie that Agamben explores” (PDF p.17 / printed p.75, citing Hussain, pp.514-531).
- On the history of British emergency legislation, see Hussain, The Jurisprudence of Emergency (note 33, PDF p.21), cited alongside Neve Gordon for the Mandate Emergency Regulations’ continuous use.
Related pages
Settler Colonialism and the State of Exception: The Example of Palestine/Israel, Hyperlegality, State of Exception, British Emergency Regulations