Rethinking Emergencies and Constitutional Rights in a Time of Terror Threat in the Czech Republic: A Need for Recalibration of Emergency Law?

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJHRCS.2017.10010788" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJHRCS.2017.10010788</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJHRCS.2017.10010788" target="_blank" >10.1504/IJHRCS.2017.10010788</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Rethinking Emergencies and Constitutional Rights in a Time of Terror Threat in the Czech Republic: A Need for Recalibration of Emergency Law?

Original language description

Nowadays, governments are facing several security issues endangering directly security of state and individual freedoms; one of them is terrorism. Accordingly, terrorism endangers not only national security but also a paradigm of modern constitutionality by pushing governments to meet the terrorist threat on its own playground. Ensuring security and ability to defend state and citizens is one of the essential functions of modern democratic state based on the rule of law and it is also presupposition of every state’s sovereignty. One of the instruments serving to ensure and preserve security of state and individuals are emergencies. When facing terrorist threat, governments usually stand before a difficult question: should constitutional safeguards be ignored, suspend or even removed in time of terrorist threat? Should we activate “emergency powers” which enable governments to overcome crisis and restore state of normalcy? More recently, another interesting question closely linked with relationship between terrorism and emergency follows the surface: Should governments adopt special state of emergency law to combat terrorism or can they operate sufficiently with existing regimes of emergency? This dilemma will be addressed in the context of Czech legal order.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50501 - Law

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies

ISSN

2050-103X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2017

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

26

Pages from-to

316-341

UT code for WoS article

000431241100007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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