Security and Liberty, Transparency and Secrecy, Parliamentary Control of the Secret Services in Canada and Germany: A Comparative Approach

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dc.contributor.advisorScott, Craig Martin
dc.creatorWiesehofer, Sophie Christine Barbara
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-28T12:45:33Z
dc.date.available2018-05-28T12:45:33Z
dc.date.copyright2017-10-11
dc.date.issued2018-05-28
dc.date.updated2018-05-28T12:45:33Z
dc.degree.disciplineLaw
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameLLM - Master of Laws
dc.description.abstractAfter an ongoing 40-year debate, Canada is going to institutionalise its first Committee of Parliamentarians that is meant to control the federal agencies and departments activities in the realm of national security. In contrast, post-war democratic Germany discussed that kind of control early on, not least because of its totalitarian past, and had already established its first parliamentary control body as of 1949; its last major reform was in 2016. Adopting a com-bined historical and comparative legal perspective, the thesis aims at analysing and comparing the constitutional frameworks and the respective debates and institutions in both countries, inter alia, with the help of scholarly works and official documents. It poses the question: can Canada make use of the German experience? It concludes that the final answer depends on an appreciation of the legitimate constitutional limits that differ between the two countries as well as on the readers own political philosophy of the relationship between security and liberty, transparency and secrecy.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/34484
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectInternational law
dc.subject.keywordsOversight
dc.subject.keywordsReview
dc.subject.keywordsAccountability
dc.subject.keywordsParliamentary control
dc.subject.keywordsIntelligence services
dc.subject.keywordsSecret services
dc.subject.keywordsIntelligence
dc.subject.keywordsCanada
dc.subject.keywordsGermany
dc.subject.keywordsConstitution
dc.subject.keywordsParlamentarisches Kontrollgremium
dc.subject.keywordsBill C-22
dc.subject.keywordsNational Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians
dc.subject.keywordsNSICOP
dc.subject.keywordsCivil liberties
dc.subject.keywordsSecurity
dc.subject.keywordsSurveillance
dc.subject.keywordsFederal Constitutional Court
dc.subject.keywordsBundesverfassungsgericht
dc.subject.keywordsParlamentarische Kontrolle
dc.subject.keywordsNachrichtendienst
dc.subject.keywordsNational security
dc.subject.keywordsWhistleblower
dc.subject.keywordsInformation-sharing
dc.subject.keywordsIntelligence sharing
dc.subject.keywordsBundesnachrichtendienst
dc.subject.keywordsFederal Intelligence Agency
dc.subject.keywordsEuropean Union
dc.subject.keywordsBasic Law
dc.subject.keywordsSeparation of powers
dc.titleSecurity and Liberty, Transparency and Secrecy, Parliamentary Control of the Secret Services in Canada and Germany: A Comparative Approach
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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