Security, Exceptionalism, and the Rule of Law

Abstract

One feature noticed in the previous chapter is the recurrence of variations on similar themes such as the use of war paradigms, crimmigration, and the surveillance of minority community members, which give rise to specific concerns about fairness and equality in legal challenges, Rudyard Kipling writes in his poem Justice that people and their king could forget about the limits on power because of their long association in wrongful acts. It is in the search for the boundaries of power, albeit in democracies, that this chapter looks at reasons why national securit legal frameworks continue to exist and become durable features despite their reactive and exceptional nature.