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Análisis de la potestad sancionatoria de la Administración Pública y sus particularidades en materia ambiental.
Bu makale, Kemalist rejimin bir burjuva modernite projesi olarak tasarladığı Ankara kentinin kuruluşunun başlıca çelişkisini oluşturan, Falih Rıfkı Atay’ın 1930’lu yıllar gibi erken bir tarihte bile “iki[nci] Ankara” olarak tanımladığı,... more
This thesis problematizes the phenomenon of privatization of security within the context of the neoliberal transformation of the capitalist state in Turkey. On the basis of the critique of neo-Weberian and Foucauldian literatures, it... more
This article explores how Japanese officials and others conceptualized police power at particular junctures in imperial Japanese history (1868-1945). It does so by synthesizing prior scholarship on the Japanese police into a broader... more
Methamphetamine (“meth”) has received a massive amount of media attention in the United States over the last decade. In reporting, journalists, politicians, and police commonly link meth to widespread risk, violence, criminality, and... more
This paper is an inquiry into the historical background of one of the most misunderstood concepts of American constitutional law: the police power. It takes us into the history of the term (and the concept) ‘police’, a very slippery... more
Critical Criminology, 2017
Police increasingly rely on new media software for public communication and policing operations. One such software is MobilePatrol: Public Safety App, a free to use mobile phone application marketed by data and analytics company Appriss... more
El trabajo aborda, en forma somera, las potestades provinciales para regular lo relativo al ejercicio profesional farmacéutico, así como las condiciones de habilitación del expendio de especialidades medicinales, y el fallo “Farmacity” de... more
This article is a response to the comments made by Cladia Aradau, Caroline Holmqvist, Yari, Lanci and Illan Rua Wall on my book War Power, Police Power (Edinburgh University Press, 2014).
In the essay “Police Power: The Biopolitical State Apparatus and Differential Interpellations,” Banu Bargu developed the notion of the Biopolitical State Apparatus (BSA). This essay deploys Bargu’s notion of the BSA within what it claims... more
Dubbed as the fourth branch or estate of the government, the power of the media in shaping the opinion of the general public cannot be underestimated. In fact, even the Philippine Constitution itself recognizes the great power which the... more
Comparative discussion of Günther Jakobs's Enemy Criminal Law (Feindstrafrecht, derecho penal del enemigo) and the Police Power Model of the criminal process.
As an exercise of the state's sovereign police power, the penal process is alegitimate. Penal police, in other words, cannot rebut the presumption of illegality that attaches to the state's use of violence, penal or otherwise, against its... more
RESUMO A proteção da saúde pública autoriza o Estado a adotar medidas restritivas de direitos individuais. Esse poder não é ilimitado. Diante de situações graves, a atuação deve ser proporcional e respeitar valores constitucionais. O... more
This paper investigates American drug criminal law, or rather the American drug penal regime, from the perspectives of two fundamental modes of governance, police and law. In particular, it inquires into the possibility of drug criminal... more
There is a clear tension in the law between exercises of state police power in land-use regulation, including zoning laws, on the one hand, and takings under the Fifth Amendment on the other. Courts have struggled to find a dividing line... more
Placing law in context makes its critical analysis possible, by elucidating the cluster of norms, practices, and institutions under investigation (thereby facilitating analysis) and by taking up vantage points from which the newly... more