Law's Fragile State

By: Mark Fathi Massoud

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Synopsis: How do a legal order and the rule of law develop in a war-torn state? Using his field research in Sudan, Massoud uncovers how colonial administrators, postcolonial governments, and international aid agencies have used legal tools and practices to promote stability and their own visions of the rule of law amid political violence and war in Sudan. Refuting the conventional wisdom of a legal vacuum in failed states, this book offers a thoughtful and readable account of the important ways that law matters in even the most extreme cases of states still fighting for political stability. Law's Fragile State helps scholars, students, policymakers, and the interested public to make sense of Sudan and what law does, and what it fails to do, in the world's most desperate environments.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781107065253
Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Date of Addition:: 09/09/13
Copyrighted By:: Mark Fathi Massoud
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.