Designing Indicators for a Plural Legal World

Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Humboldt-Universitèat zu Berlin, 2020).

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. 'Meanings', 'trust' and 'power': Critical perspectives on legal indicators; 3. Rule of law promotion, legal indicators and legal pluralism; 4. Epistemic diversity and voices from the global south: Countering the managerial implications of measuring justice; 5. A capability approach to access to justice in plural legal systems; Annexure; Bibliography.

About the author

Siddharth Peter de Souza is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society, Tilburg Law School, Netherlands, and works at the intersection of data and society. He was previously a researcher at the Chair of Public Law and Comparative Law, Humboldt University, Germany.

Summary

It engages with the role of quantification in law, and its impact on law and development and judicial reform. It examines how different institutions shape and influence the making and use of legal indicators globally.

Product details

• Authors: Siddharth Peter de Souza, de Souza Siddharth Peter de Souza
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781316514894
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51489-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Global Law Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Sociology, Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, LAW / International, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, LAW / Comparative, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, International Law, India, Politics & government, Politics and government, comparative law, Development Studies, Indian sub-continent, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law