‘Emergency Powers’ of the European Union: An Inquiry on the Supranational Model
(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2025 10(3), 525-553 | Article | (Table of Contents) 1. Introduction. – 2. Conceptual framework: ‘models of constitutional accommodation’ in domestic and international law.
Claudia Cinnirella
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Emergency powers in democratic states: Introducing the Democratic Emergency Powers dataset
This article discusses the content and causes of emergency powers in democratic states. It makes two main contributions. First, it introduces the Democratic Emergency Powers dataset, which codifies formal rules of institutional change during periods of ...
Bryan Rooney
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Emergencies: on the misuse of government powers [PDF]
AbstractNine out of 10 constitutions contain explicit emergency provisions, intended to help governments cope with extraordinary events that endanger many people or the existence of the state. We ask two questions: (1) does the constitutionalization of emergency provisions help governments to cope with disasters and other extraordinary events? (2) What
Christian Bjørnskov, Stefan Voigt
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Human rights protection in emergency circumstances: Scope and limitations of article 15 of the European convention on human rights [PDF]
This paper examines the legal framework for the protection of human rights in situations of extreme crisis in the European legal area, in order to achieve a coherent understanding of legal standards that will lead to their more uniform application ...
Kreštalica Sanja R. +1 more
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Emergency Powers and Human Rights Derogations under the Constitution of Lesotho
Constitutions worldwide occasionally reach moments of public emergency when deviation from the ordinary normative framework is inevitable. To regulate the exercise of public power even during such moments, constitutions have provisions for emergencies ...
Hoolo 'Nyane
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Emergency governance (un)bound: A brief reflection on Southeast Europe's response to Covid-19 pandemic [PDF]
Relying on the Madison-Schmitt dichotomy in the theory of emergency governance, this article will explore to what extent constitutional courts of Southeast Europe imposed warranted limits to the executive power in their responses to the Covid-19 global ...
Miljojković Teodora
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Carl Schmitt was an anti-liberal conservative jurist during the Weimar Republic in Germany whose position on emergency powers sponsors a hardline form of ‘realism’.
Rawin Leelapatana
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Structure and Power: an emerging landscape
In this paper, we give an overview of some recent work on applying tools from category theory in finite model theory, descriptive complexity, constraint satisfaction, and combinatorics. The motivations for this work come from Computer Science, but there may also be something of interest for model theorists and other logicians.
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When More is Less: Emergency Powers, COVID-19 and Abortion in South Australia, 2020
In March 2020, when emergency powers legislation was invoked in South Australia to manage COVID-19, the South Australian Abortion Action Coalition (saaac) had been campaigning to decriminalise abortion since 2015. The group quickly realised that COVID-19
Barbara Baird +3 more
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The Governance of Covid-19 Pandemic Health Emergency in Italy: A Constitutional Perspective
The essay focuses on the measures that have been taken in Italy to limit the contagion with Coronavirus in the first phase of the health emergency in 2020.
Angela Cossiri
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