National Security Secrecy - Comparative Effects on Democracy and the Rule of Law

Informationen zum Autor Sudha Setty teaches national security law and comparative constitutional law at Western New England University School of Law, where she has twice won teaching awards. She was a Fulbright Senior Specialist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, and has edited Constitutions, Security, and the Rule of Law (2014). Setty has also served as chair of the Comparative Law and National Security Law sections of the Association of American Law Schools. Klappentext This book considers how excessive national security secrecy undercuts democracy and the rule of law, necessitating comparative and critical analysis toward potential reforms. Zusammenfassung Excessive national security secrecy has been a vexing problem in both of the post-9/11 US administrations! undermining democracy and the rule of law. Using a comparative and critical analysis! Sudha Setty considers constitutional priorities and potential avenues for reform in National Security Secrecy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. The Infrastructure of Secrecy in the United States: 1. Executive branch secrecy; 2. Congressional complicity; 3. An overly deferential judiciary; Part II. Comparative Perspectives on Transparency: 4. International and supranational norms; 5. The United Kingdom; 6. India; Part III. Societal Tolerance for National Security Secrecy: 7. Public and political resilience; 8. Individual privacy and secrecy: a matter of contract or a human right?; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Sudha Setty, Sudha N. Setty, Setty Sudha
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781107130623
• ISBN: 978-1-107-13062-3
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Ascl Studies in Comparative La; ASCL Studies in Comparative Law; ASCL Studies in Comparative Law; Ascl Studies in Comparative La
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; LAW / Constitutional, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general