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Full-Text Articles in Disaster Law
Center For Health & Homeland Security Newsletter, Spring 2023
Center For Health & Homeland Security Newsletter, Spring 2023
Newsletter
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The Emergency Next Time, Noa Ben-Asher
The Emergency Next Time, Noa Ben-Asher
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
This Article offers a new conceptual framework to understand the connection between law and violence in emergencies. It is by now well-established that governments often commit state violence in times of national security crisis by implementing excessive emergency measures. The Article calls this type of legal violence “Emergency-Affirming Violence.” But Emergency Violence can also be committed through governmental non-action. This type of violence, which this Article calls, “Emergency-Denying Violence,” has manifested in the crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Article offers a taxonomy to better understand the phenomenon of Emergency Violence. Using 9/11 and COVID-19 as examples, the Article proposes …
On Environmental Law, Climate Change, And National Security Law, Mark P. Nevitt
On Environmental Law, Climate Change, And National Security Law, Mark P. Nevitt
Faculty Articles
This Article offers a new way to think about climate change. Two new climate change assessments—the 2018 Fourth National Climate Assessment (“NCA”) and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Special Report on Climate Change— prominently highlight climate change’s multifaceted national security risks. Indeed, not only is climate change an environmental problem, it also accelerates existing national security threats, acting as both a “threat accelerant” and “catalyst for conflict.” Further, climate change increases the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events while threatening nations’ territorial integrity and sovereignty through rising sea levels. It causes both internal displacement within nations …
Mwcog And Infragardncr Key To Government Engagement With Private Sector Critical Infrastructure Stakeholders, Christopher Ryan
Mwcog And Infragardncr Key To Government Engagement With Private Sector Critical Infrastructure Stakeholders, Christopher Ryan
Homeland Security Publications
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The Compromised Cargo Container: Terror In A Box, Taylor Simpson-Wood
The Compromised Cargo Container: Terror In A Box, Taylor Simpson-Wood
Faculty Scholarship
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Disaggregating Disasters, Lisa Grow Sun, Ronnell Andersen Jones
Disaggregating Disasters, Lisa Grow Sun, Ronnell Andersen Jones
Faculty Scholarship
In the years since the September 11 attacks, scholars and commentators have criticized the emergence of both legal developments and policy rhetoric that blur the lines between war and terrorism. Unrecognized, but equally as damaging to democratic ideals—and potentially more devastating in practical effect—is the expansion of this trend beyond the context of terrorism to a much wider field of nonwar emergencies. Indeed, in recent years, war and national security rhetoric has come to permeate the legal and policy conversations on a wide variety of natural and technological disasters. This melding of disaster and war for purposes of justifying exceptions …