The Institute today released its comparative emergency-powers database, a structured catalogue of codified emergency-powers frameworks across 24 jurisdictions in five regions. The Dataset accompanies our recent comparative Report and supports both the framework for assessing legislative proposals and broader research in the area.
Each record is tagged across the five procedural features identified in the companion Report: ex ante legislative authorisation; sunset and renewal requirements; judicial access during the emergency; procedural rights surviving derogation; and institutional review mechanisms. The tagging is intended to support cross-jurisdictional comparison without forcing the records into superficially identical categories.
All records are sourced from primary statutory and constitutional materials, with English translations where applicable. The Dataset is published under an open-access licence with attribution; the schema specification and a changelog accompany the data.
We expect the Dataset to evolve. Updates will be released on a defined cycle, with the version history preserved.