States of exception in American history

Part 1: The challenge of Carl Schmitt. What Is the state of exception? / Nomi Claire Lazar

Negotiating the rule of law : dilemmas of security and liberty revisited / Ewa Atanassow and Ira Katznelson

Beyond the exception / David Dyzenhaus

Part 2: The American experience with emergency powers. The American law of overruling necessity : the exceptional origins of state police power / William J. Novak

To save the country : treason and necessity in constitutional emergencies / John Fabian Witt

Powers of war in times of peace : emergency powers in the United States after the end of the Civil War / Gregory P. Downs

Was there an American concept of emergency powers? John Dewey, Carl Schmitt, and the democratic politics of exception / Stephen W. Sawyer

Charles Merriam and the search for democratic power after sovereignty / James T. Sparrow

Constitutional dictatorship in twentieth-century American political thought / Joel Isaac

Part 3: Broadening the exception. Frederick Douglass and constitutional emergency : an homage to the political creativity of abolitionist activism / Mariah Zeisberg

Delegated governance as a structure of exceptions / Elisabeth S. Clemens

Spaces of exception in American history / Gary Gerstle and Desmond King.