The Jurisprudence of Emergency: Colonialism and the Rule of Law

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments This book began as a dissertation at the University of California, Berkeley . My thanks to all of my teachers there: Tom and Barbara Metcalf, Tom Laqueur, David Lieberman, David Lloyd, Eugene Irschick, and Martin Jay. Thank you to the Harvard Society of Fellows, and in particular Amartya Sen, for offering me time and space to work. I completed this manuscript at Amherst College, and I thank my colleagues in the Department of History and the Department of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought. My colleagues and dear friends in the latter department , Lawrence Douglas and Martha Umphrey, read and commented on the manuscript, and I thank them both. In particular, I would like to express my great gratitude to Austin Sarat for his constant support and his dedication to nurturing the work of junior scholars. The Henry R. Luce Foundation not only underwrote my position at Amherst College but also was generous in support of further research. Thank you also to Lisa Raskin, the Dean of Faculty at Amherst College. Melissa Ptacek and James Martel have been constant interlocutors throughout this undertaking and I thank them for their intellectual and emotional support. Thanks to many other friends: Dipesh Chakrabarty, Jennifer Culbert, Faisal Devji, Tom Dumm, Peter Goodrich, Piyel Haldar , Uday Mehta, Peter Rush, and Alison Young. An earlier version of parts of chapters 1 and 4 appeared in Law and Critique 10 (1999). Thank you to that journal and to Kluwer Academic Publishers for permission to reprint. ...