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Law's fragile state : colonial, authoritarian, and humanitarian legacies in Sudan
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ISBN: 1107065259 1139891103 1107056802 1107054648 1107057922 1139199242 1107059186 1107055687 9781107055681 9781139199247 9781107059184 9781107057920 9781107026070 1107026075 9781107440050 110744005X 9781107065253 9781139891103 9781107056800 9781107054646 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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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.


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Shari'a, inshallah : finding god in Somali legal politics
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ISBN: 1108965989 9781108967280 110896706X 1108967280 1108832784 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,

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Western analysts have long denigrated Islamic states as antagonistic, even antithetical, to the rule of law. Mark Fathi Massoud tells a different story: for nearly 150 years, the Somali people have embraced shari'a, commonly translated as Islamic law, in the struggle for national identity and human rights. Lawyers, community leaders, and activists throughout the Horn of Africa have invoked God to oppose colonialism, resist dictators, expel warlords, and to fight for gender equality - all critical steps on the path to the rule of law. Shari'a, Inshallah traces the most dramatic moments of legal change, political collapse, and reconstruction in Somalia and Somaliland. Massoud upends the conventional account of secular legal progress and demonstrates instead how faith in a higher power guides people toward the rule of law.


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Out of place : fieldwork and positionality in law and society
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ISBN: 9781009338219 1009338218 1009338242 1009338250 Year: 2024 Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press,

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Out of Place tells a new history of the field of law and society through the experiences and fieldwork of successful writers from populations that academia has historically marginalized. Encouraging collective and transparent self-reflection on positionality, the volume features scholars from around the world who share how their out-of-place positionalities influenced their research questions, data collection, analysis, and writing in law and society. From China to Colombia, India to Indonesia, Singapore to South Africa, and the United Kingdom to the United States, these experts record how they conducted their fieldwork, how their privileges and disadvantages impacted their training and research, and what they learned about the law in the process. As the global field of law and society becomes more diverse and an interest in identity grows, Out of Place is a call to embrace the power of positionality. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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