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The Failures of Others

Justifying Institutional Expansion in Comparative Public and International Law

Av Michaela Hailbronner

Del 41 i serien Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law

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Arguments from failure - arguments that an institution must expand its powers because another institution is failing in some way 'to do its job' - are commonplace. From structural reform litigation, where courts sometimes assume administrative or legislative functions, to the Uniting for Peace Resolution of the UN General Assembly, to the recent bill quashing British subpostmasters' convictions - such arguments are offered in justification for unorthodox exercises of public power. But in spite of their popularity, we lack a good understanding of these arguments in legal terms. This is partly because failure itself is a highly malleable concept and partly because arguments from failure blur into other more familiar legal doctrines about implied powers or emergencies. We can do better. We should recognize arguments from failure as a distinct concept of public law and understand that contemporary constitutional theory offers us tools to evaluate such arguments in different settings This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
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Michaela Hailbronner holds the chair for German and International Public Law and Comparative Law at the University of Münster, Germany. She is Co-President of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) and has done research in Germany, South Africa, the US and the UK. Her 2014 article on German constitutionalism won the inaugural Best Paper Award of the International Journal of Constitutional Law.

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'What should we do when those who wield power fail? In a subtle and nuanced analysis, Michaela Hailbronner tackles this question with insight and originality. Drawing on case-studies from comparative constitutional law, the European Union, and international law, Hailbronner makes a powerful case that we need to take institutional failure seriously - not just as a cause for lament or an automatic licence to deviate from established legal norms, but as a stimulus for a more measured and context-specific approach. All public lawyers will benefit from engaging with Hailbronner's illuminating and compelling arguments.' Aileen Kavanagh, Professor of Constitutional Governance, Law, Trinity College Dublin

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