TY - BOOK ID - 78530934 TI - Law's fragile state PY - 2013 SN - 1107065259 1139891103 1107056802 1107054648 1107057922 1139199242 1107059186 1107055687 9781107055681 9781139199247 9781107059184 9781107057920 9781107026070 1107026075 9781107440050 110744005X 9781107065253 9781139891103 9781107056800 9781107054646 PB - Cambridge [England] Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Rule of law KW - Law KW - Islamic law KW - Human rights KW - Authoritarianism KW - Political science KW - Authority KW - Civil law (Islamic law) KW - Law, Arab KW - Law, Islamic KW - Law in the Qurʼan KW - Sharia (Islamic law) KW - Shariʻah (Islamic law) KW - Law, Oriental KW - Law, Semitic KW - Acts, Legislative KW - Enactments, Legislative KW - Laws (Statutes) KW - Legislative acts KW - Legislative enactments KW - Jurisprudence KW - Legislation KW - Supremacy of law KW - Administrative law KW - Constitutional law KW - History. KW - Political aspects KW - Sudan KW - Sudan, Egyptian KW - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan KW - Anglo-Egipetskiĭ Sudan KW - Egyptian Sudan KW - Democratic Republic of the Sudan KW - Republic of the Sudan KW - Jumhūrīyat al-Sūdān al-Dīmuqrāṭīyah KW - Soudan KW - Demokraticheskai︠a︡ Respublika Sudan KW - Sudan (Democratic Republic) KW - Jamhuryat es-Sudan KW - Republic of Sudan KW - Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān KW - Jumhuriyat as-Sudan KW - As-Sudan KW - Lado Enclave (Congo Free State) KW - Politics and government KW - Politics and government. KW - General and Others UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78530934 AB - How do a legal order and the rule of law develop in a war-torn state? Using his field research in Sudan, the author uncovers how colonial administrators, postcolonial governments and international aid agencies have used legal tools and resources to promote stability and their own visions of the rule of law amid political violence and war in Sudan. Tracing the dramatic development of three forms of legal politics - colonial, authoritarian and humanitarian - this book contributes to a growing body of scholarship on law in authoritarian regimes and on human rights and legal empowerment programs in the Global South. Refuting the conventional wisdom of a legal vacuum in failed states, this book reveals how law matters deeply even in the most extreme cases of states still fighting for political stability. ER -