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The Failures of Others - Michaela Hailbronner

The Failures of Others

Justifying Institutional Expansion in Comparative Public and International Law
Buch | Hardcover
270 Seiten
2026
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-64666-6 (ISBN)
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This book offers a new legal account of arguments from failure --arguments that an institution must expand its powers because another institution is failing in some way 'to do its job'.
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.

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.

Introduction; Part I. Why Failure Matters – And What Follows from That: 1. What are arguments failure and when might we need them?; 2. Safe, legal and rare: the case for and against arguments from failure; 3. Proportionality; 4. Structural reform litigation in domestic courts; 5. A framework for structural reform litigation; 6. Failure and legal innovation: arguments from failure as judicial trumps; Part III. 7. Arguments from failure in international law; 8. Efficiency and failure in the European union; 9. Conclusion and perspectives; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 31.1.2026
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern Allgemeines / Lexika
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Öffentliches Recht
ISBN-10 1-009-64666-4 / 1009646664
ISBN-13 978-1-009-64666-6 / 9781009646666
Zustand Neuware
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