Law''s Fragile State - Colonial, Authoritarian, and Humanitarian Legacies in Sudan

Uncovers how colonial administrators, postcolonial governments and international aid agencies have promoted stability and their own visions of the rule of law in Sudan.

List of contents

1. Lawfare and warfare in Sudan; 2. The colonial path to the rule of law, 1898-1956; 3. Law in a state of crisis, 1956-89; 4. Authoritarian legal politics and Islamic law, 1989-2011; 5. Law and civil society, 1956-2011; 6. Humanitarian legal politics in an authoritarian state, 2005-11; 7. Reflections on legal politics.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Fathi Massoud, Mark Fathi (University of California Massoud, Massoud Mark Fathi
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.05.2014
• EAN: 9781107440050
• ISBN: 978-1-107-44005-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society; Cambridge Studies in Law and S; Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; Sudan, Law, LAW / General, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law