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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463147703321

Autore

Massoud Mark Fathi

Titolo

Law's fragile state : colonial, authoritarian, and humanitarian legacies in Sudan / / Mark Fathi Massoud, University of California, Santa Cruz [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-06525-9

1-139-89110-3

1-107-05680-2

1-107-05464-8

1-107-05792-2

1-139-19924-2

1-107-05918-6

1-107-05568-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 277 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in law and society

Disciplina

349.624

Soggetti

Rule of law - Sudan - History

Law - Political aspects - Sudan - History

Islamic law - Sudan - History

Human rights - Sudan

Authoritarianism - Sudan

Sudan Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 -- Reflections on legal politics.

Sommario/riassunto

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.