The Failures of Others: Justifying Institutional Expansion in Comparative Public and International Law - Couverture rigide

Hailbronner, Michaela

 
9781009646666: The Failures of Others: Justifying Institutional Expansion in Comparative Public and International Law
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1009646664 ISBN 13 : 9781009646666
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Synopsis

Arguments from failure – arguments that an institution must expand its powers because another institution is failing in some way 'to do its job' – are commonplace. From structural reform litigation, where courts sometimes assume administrative or legislative functions, to the Uniting for Peace Resolution of the UN General Assembly, to the recent bill quashing British subpostmasters' convictions – such arguments are offered in justification for unorthodox exercises of public power. But in spite of their popularity, we lack a good understanding of these arguments in legal terms. This is partly because failure itself is a highly malleable concept and partly because arguments from failure blur into other more familiar legal doctrines about implied powers or emergencies. We can do better. We should recognize arguments from failure as a distinct concept of public law and understand that contemporary constitutional theory offers us tools to evaluate such arguments in different settings This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

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À propos de l?auteur

Michaela Hailbronner holds the chair for German and International Public Law and Comparative Law at the University of Münster, Germany. She is Co-President of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) and has done research in Germany, South Africa, the US and the UK. Her 2014 article on German constitutionalism won the inaugural Best Paper Award of the International Journal of Constitutional Law.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1009646664
ISBN 13 
9781009646666
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
284
Coordonnées du fabricant
Cambridge University Press
https://www.cambridge.org/

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