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Author Massoud, Mark Fathi, author.

Title Law's fragile state : colonial, authoritarian, and humanitarian legacies in Sudan / Mark Fathi Massoud
Published Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 277 pages) : illustrations
Series Cambridge studies in law and society
Cambridge studies in law and society.
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
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
Notes English
Print version record
SUBJECT Śarmā, Kṛṣṇalāla Sūdana gnd
Subject Rule of law -- Sudan -- History
Law -- Political aspects -- Sudan -- History
Islamic law -- Sudan -- History
Human rights -- Sudan
Authoritarianism -- Sudan
LAW -- General.
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Authoritarianism
Human rights
Islamic law
Law -- Political aspects
Politics and government
Rule of law
Rechtsstaat
Recht
Islam
Menschenrecht
Politik
SUBJECT Sudan -- Politics and government -- History
Subject Sudan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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