Survey Article: Emergency Powers and the Rule of Law After 9/11.

The article reports on the revival of scholarly interests in the perennial question of how emergency power can be made to conform to the rule of law. With only slight delay, academic pronouncements followed government action, generating a host of impressive discussions of the dilemmas posed by extraordinary executive power. The crisis brought about terrorism and the fragile state of peace and order have generally augmented executive power and diminished basic civil liberties.