Emergency powers in Asia : exploring the limits of legality

Cover......Page 1
Half title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Contributors......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
I. Introduction......Page 15
II. Perspectives from legal and political theory......Page 18
III. Postcolonial and post-conflict transitions......Page 21
IV. Emergencies, executive power and constitutional order......Page 24
V. The role of the courts......Page 27
VI. Emergency powers in Asia: intellectual crossroads......Page 29
VII. Conclusion: out of the shadows......Page 31
Part I Perspectives from legal and political theory......Page 33
I. Introduction......Page 35
II. Contemporary theories of emergency powers......Page 37
III. Emergency powers and constitutionalism in Southeast Asia......Page 42
A. East Timor: emergency powers and post-conflict constitutionalism......Page 43
B. Thailand: emergency powers and constitutional instability......Page 48
C. Malaysia: constitutionalism and emergency powers at the crossroads......Page 52
D. Emergency powers and constitutionalism in Southeast Asia......Page 55
IV. Emergency powers, politics and the struggle for legality......Page 56
A. Existential threats and emergency powers......Page 57
B. Transitional constitutionalism and the struggle for legality......Page 59
C. The proportionality principle......Page 64
D. Final clarifications......Page 66
V. Conclusion......Page 68
I. Introduction......Page 70
II. Emergency powers: origins and transplant......Page 71
III. The case of Hong Kong......Page 79
IV. The case of Taiwan......Page 82
V. The case of South Korea......Page 86
VI. The case of mainland China......Page 93
VII. Concluding reflections......Page 96
I. Introduction......Page 103
II. Emergency as 'extraconstitution’......Page 106
A. Pakistan's 2007 judicial crisis......Page 107
B. Musharrafs 'emergency’......Page 110
C. Constitution versus 'extraconstitution’......Page 113
III. Constraining extraconstitutionality......Page 119
IV. Constitution as extraconstitution......Page 124
V. The colonial period and its legacy......Page 129
VI. Conclusion......Page 133
I. Introduction......Page 135
A. What edible-salt laws have to do with the fight against terror......Page 136
B. The compulsion to legality......Page 140
1. Law deficits and doctrinal remedies......Page 141
2. Institution deficits and Institutional reform......Page 143
3. Norm deficits and political culture remedies......Page 145
A. Producing legitimacy in exceptional moments......Page 146
B. Continuities and ruptures: the pathology of the everyday......Page 149
C. From the 'compulsion of legality’ to the 'force of law’......Page 153
IV. Conclusion: The Princely Impostor......Page 157
Part II Postcolonial and post-conflict transitions......Page 161
I. Introduction......Page 163
II. Reserve powers of the colonial masters......Page 165
A. The American influence and the Philippines......Page 166
B. The British model......Page 167
1. Burma (Myanmar)......Page 169
2. Malaysia and Singapore......Page 170
3. Brunei......Page 175
1. Vietnam......Page 177
2. Laos......Page 180
3. Cambodia......Page 181
D. Indonesia......Page 182
A. The Philippines......Page 183
B. Indonesia......Page 187
C. Burma (Myanmar)......Page 189
D. Thailand......Page 191
E. Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei......Page 194
IV. Concluding observations......Page 198
I. Introduction......Page 201
II. Historical context......Page 205
III. An epistemology of emergency......Page 208
IV. Legislating emergency......Page 211
V. The Burma Criminal Law Amendment Ordinance, monks and the Bengali connection......Page 213
VI. Debating emergency......Page 219
VII. Contemporary currents and colonial antecedents......Page 224
I. Introduction......Page 227
II. Indonesias emergency powers......Page 229
III. Emergency rule and Shari’a: empowering or constraining state authority?......Page 240
IV. From emergency rule to Islamic law......Page 245
V. Conclusion......Page 249
9 UNaccountable? The United Nations, emergency powers and the rule of law in Asia......Page 251
I. Invoking the rule of law as a response to emergency......Page 254
A. The Security Councils uses of the rule of law......Page 255
B. Applying the rule of law in East Timor......Page 260
A. Does the rule of law apply to the United Nations?......Page 266
1. Kosovo – executive detentions......Page 267
2. Targeted financial sanctions......Page 269
3. Compromising the rule of law in Afghanistan......Page 271
III. Conclusion: the 'ways of Orientals’?......Page 275
Part III Emergencies, executive power and constitutional order......Page 279
I. Introduction......Page 281
II. Emergency power in Indonesia: an overview......Page 282
III. Rule of law in Indonesia......Page 287
A. Negara hukum in Indonesia......Page 288
B. Implementing the rule of law: economic and political pressures......Page 290
C. Toward rule of law in Indonesia......Page 295
A. Under pressure......Page 298
B. Emergency response......Page 301
V. Conclusion......Page 305
I. Introduction......Page 308
II. Emergency powers: the constitutional provisions......Page 314
A. Scope of the powers......Page 315
B. Scrutiny......Page 317
D. Martial law......Page 319
III. The Internal Security Act 2007......Page 320
IV. Conclusion......Page 325
I. Introduction......Page 328
A. The prevalence of 'extra-legal’ administrative guidance......Page 331
B. Judicial review as facilitator of executive action......Page 335
C. The constraining effects of factionalism and consensus politics......Page 339
III. The limits of constitutionalism......Page 342
IV. Carving a space for the exception and constitutional politics......Page 347
I. The puzzle of emergency powers law in a 'Chinese-style’ regime......Page 356
II. Limiting damage to the '(socialist) rule of law’ project......Page 359
A. Establishing legal frameworks for emergency powers......Page 361
B. 'Incidents’ and exceptional powers without 'emergencies’......Page 368
III. Creating state power through law......Page 370
A. Authorising and defining emergency powers......Page 371
B. Strengthening state institutions and central control......Page 374
IV. Pursuing substantive priorities......Page 378
A. Preserving social and political order......Page 379
B. Sustaining economic growth......Page 383
V. Drawing on laws legitimacy......Page 384
VI. Constraining the state?......Page 389
A. Power-creating law as state-limiting law......Page 390
B. Substantive justifications as narrowing constructions......Page 393
C. Rights-protecting law, laws legitimacy and critiquing the state......Page 396
VII. Conclusion: emergency powers and emerging legality......Page 402
Part IV The role of the courts......Page 405
II. The dilemmas of constitutionalised emergency powers......Page 407
B. Abuse of emergency powers......Page 408
C. Entrenched emergency powers and constitutionalism......Page 410
D. Constitutionalised emergency powers and constitutional amendments......Page 413
III. Emergency powers as non-entrenched powers......Page 415
A. The case for ordinary emergency powers......Page 416
B. Ordinary emergency powers and proportionality......Page 417
C. Ordinary emergency powers: objections and refutations......Page 421
IV. Conclusion......Page 423
I. Introduction......Page 426
II. Historical and doctrinal context......Page 427
A. Survey of the constitutional history......Page 428
B. Institutionalised emergency under Marcos......Page 430
C. The post-Marcos Constitution: institutional checks on emergency powers......Page 433
1. The commander-in-chief clause......Page 434
3. Economic emergencies clause......Page 436
D. Arroyos 'rule-of-law’ brinkmanship: formalism pushed to the hilt......Page 437
1. Arroyo: textual compliance, normative evasion......Page 438
2. Dismal human rights record......Page 443
III. A nation of juridical 'schizoids’: pre-emption, subterfuge and -doing without naming’......Page 444
IV. Conclusion......Page 447
I. Introduction......Page 450
II. A.R. Cornelius......Page 453
III. Litigation during the first emergency......Page 455
IV. Opinions written after the first imposition of martial law......Page 458
V. Dialogue with the executive......Page 465
VI. The explicit turn to Islamism......Page 467
VII. The further evolution of Corneliuss thought......Page 473
VIII. Criticism of Cornelius and the declining awareness of his Islamist tendencies......Page 475
IX. Conclusion......Page 476
I. Introduction......Page 480
II. The shift in the conventional view: judicial checks on emergency powers post-9/11......Page 483
III. Post-independence India and emergency laws......Page 486
IV. Recent trends in judicial review in Asia......Page 495
V. Judicial review of emergency powers? Recent cases from India......Page 500
VI. Normative reasons for strong judicial review of emergency powers......Page 503
VII. Conclusion......Page 508
Index......Page 509