Law and security in Europe
Subtitle: reconsidering the security constitution
By: editors, Massimo Fichera, Jens Kremer
Series: Ius commune europaeum -- 112; Ius commune europaeum -- 112.
Publisher: Intersentia
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781780681474
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Internal security; Human security; Law; Philosophy; Social aspects
Description: This collection of essays is divided in two parts. In the first part, security is considered from a theoretical angle, as a phenomenon that has become an integral part of modern society and inevitably interacts with law in many ways. The aim of the authors' analyses is to emphasise the ambiguity of the notion of security and its tendency to expand and affect simultaneously different fields of law. Depending on the adopted approach, security can be understood in many different terms and through various concepts. The second part of the book considers some of these security dilemmas in two specific areas of law: human rights and criminal law.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Exception, protection and securitization : security mindsets in law  -- Jens Kremer; title: A European security constitution?  -- Kaarlo Tuori; title: Security issues as an existential threat to the community  -- Massimo Fichera; title: Public foundation as the striving for security  -- Alun Gibbs; title: Security and rights in the war on terror : on the constitutive insecurity of rules  -- Jarna Petman; title: Administrative measures in counter-terrorism activities : more leeway for the imperatives of security at the expense of human rights?  -- Tuomas Ojanen; title: Security and criminal law : a difficult relationship  -- Kimmo Nuotio; title: The blurred architecture of European criminal law -- Sakari Melander.