Law's Fragile State: Colonial, Authoritarian, and Humanitarian Legacies in Sudan (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society) - Softcover

Massoud, Mark Fathi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 110744005X ISBN 13: 9781107440050

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

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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Book Description:

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, practices, and resources to promote stability and their own visions of the rule of law amid political violence and war in Sudan.

About the Author:

Mark Fathi Massoud is Assistant Professor in the Politics Department and Legal Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received the American Political Science Association Edward S. Corwin Award for the best dissertation in public law and the Law and Society Association Dissertation Prize. Massoud spent fifteen months in Sudan researching this book, including a year under a Fulbright-Hays fellowship.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 110744005X
• ISBN 13: 9781107440050
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304