This book examines law's complex relationship to sovereign power and emergency conditions and places today's responses to emergency in historical and institutional context.

Introduction: toward new conceptions of the relationship of law and sovereignty under conditions of emergency Austin Sarat; 1. The 'organic law' of 'ex parte milligan' David Dyzenhaus; 2. Comment on 'the 'organic law' of 'ex parte milligan' Tony A. Freyer; 3. Emergency, legality, sovereignty: Birmingham, 1963 Patrick O. Gudridge; 4. Order in the court Paul Horwitz; 5. The banality of emergency: on the time and space of 'political necessity' Leonard C. Feldman; 6. Emergencies, body parts and price gouging J. Shahar Dillbary; 7. The racial sovereign Sumi Cho and Gil Gott; 8. Toward a nonracial sovereign Debra Lyn Bassett; 9. Should constitutional democracies redefine emergencies and the legal regimes suitable for them? Michel Rosenfeld; 10. Comment on 'should constitutional democracies redefine emergencies and the legal regimes suitable for them?' James Leonard.