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PublisherEncounter Books
ISBN-101641774401
ISBN-139781641774406
eBay Product ID (ePID)2341977071
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Book TitlePreventive State : the Challenge of Preventing Serious Harms While Preserving Essential Liberties
Publication Year2025
TopicHistory & Theory, Comparative Politics, Privacy & Surveillance (See Also Social Science / Privacy & Surveillance)
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
GenrePolitical Science
AuthorAlan Dershowitz
FormatHardcover
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Item Length9 in
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ReviewsA compelling capstone to Alan Dershowitz's unparalleled analysis and experience throughout his distinguished career as a professor and litigator. --Nadine Strossen, John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law Emerita, New York Law School, Dershowitz provides a brilliant roadmap for addressing the conundrum that maximizes both safety and liberty while recognizing that tradeoffs are inevitable. --Jack L. Goldsmith, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard University, No one but Alan would seek to bring a common mode of thought to issues as diverse as bail, climate change, and terrorism. --Lawrence Summers, President Emeritus, Harvard University, No one but Alan would seek to bring a common mode of thought to issues as diverse as bail, climate change, and terrorism. --Lawrence Summers, President Emeritus, Harvard University An urgently important book about how to balance the desire to have governments prevent crises with the need to safeguard fundamental civil liberties. --Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, University of California-Berkeley School of Law A compelling capstone to Alan Dershowitz's unparalleled analysis and experience throughout his distinguished career as a professor and litigator. --Nadine Strossen, John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law Emerita, New York Law School He elucidates the intricate issue of preventive law, while updating it to the unforeseen challenges of the twenty-first century. --Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard University Dershowitz provides a brilliant roadmap for addressing the conundrum that maximizes both safety and liberty while recognizing that tradeoffs are inevitable. --Jack L. Goldsmith, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard University With clarity, wisdom, wit and breadth of understanding, Alan Dershowitz argues that the legal system should be revamped to prevent-not just punish-wrongdoing. --Jesse Fried, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Harvard University, An urgently important book about how to balance the desire to have governments prevent crises with the need to safeguard fundamental civil liberties. --Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, University of California-Berkeley School of Law, He elucidates the intricate issue of preventive law, while updating it to the unforeseen challenges of the twenty-first century. --Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, With clarity, wisdom, wit and breadth of understanding, Alan Dershowitz argues that the legal system should be revamped to prevent-not just punish-wrongdoing. --Jesse Fried, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Harvard University
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Synopsis"You shall thank Alan Dershowitz for writing this [valuable] book." -- Stephen Breyer, Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court If reliable but uncertain intelligence predicted a mass casualty terrorist attack and indicated likely suspects, what preventive actions would be constitutionally authorized? Detention? Interrogation? Torture? What if the attack involved a weaponized virus? Should the government compel widespread inoculation that might kill hundreds of people while saving millions? What if an article describing how to circumvent the inoculation mandate was about to be published? Should censorship of the article be authorized? These are the sorts of questions Alan Dershowitz has been asking for more than 60 years, in his teaching, writing, and litigation. Now, at age 86, he has written his magnum opus. In it, he suggests an overarching jurisprudential framework that would set limits to the ballooning power of what he calls "the preventive state." This important book offers unprecedented insights into one of the most underexamined developments of our age: the growing magnitude and frequency of cataclysmic threats, coupled with the increasingly effective--but increasingly intrusive--tools intended to predict and prevent them. Dershowitz responds to the urgent need for a jurisprudence that provides balance and accountability as both dangers and preventive capabilities increase, threatening our security and our liberties. This masterful analysis should be read by everyone who cares about security, liberty, and democracy.
