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Author Massoud, Mark Fathi.

Title Law's fragile state : colonial, authoritarian, and humanitarian legacies in Sudan / Mark Fathi Massoud.

Publication Info. Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 277 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Cambridge studies in law and society
Cambridge studies in law and society.
Summary "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. 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-265) and index.
Contents Lawfare and warfare in Sudan -- The colonial path to the rule of law, 1898-1956 -- Law in a State of Crisis, 1956-1989 -- Authoritarian legal politics and Islamic law, 1989-2011 -- Law and civil society, 1956-2011 -- Humanitarian legal politics in an authoritarian state, 2005-2011 -- The politics of law promotion : a critical appraisal.
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Subject Rule of law -- Sudan -- History.
Rule of law.
Sudan.
History.
Law -- Political aspects -- Sudan -- History.
Law -- Political aspects.
Islamic law -- Sudan -- History.
Islamic law.
Sudan -- Politics and government -- History.
Politics and government.
Human rights -- Sudan.
Human rights.
Authoritarianism -- Sudan.
Authoritarianism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Law.
Human rights.
Other Form: Print version: Massoud, Mark Fathi. Law's fragile state. Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 2013 9781107026070 (DLC) 2012049887 (OCoLC)821560845
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