Expert Ignorance - The Law and Politics of Rule of Law Reform

"Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, Deval Desai presents the novel concept of 'expert ignorance', a practice by which experts continually admit the limits of their knowledge. With a range of illustrative case studies, Desai demonstrates the impact of this powerful yet paradoxical form of expertise in rule of law reform and beyond"--

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Ignorance and the practice of rule of law reform; 3. Projecting the rule of law; 4. Performing the rule of law; 5. Law and politics of rule of law performances; 6. Historicising rule of law performances; 7. The sociology of rule of law performers; 8. Conclusion

About the author

Deval Desai is Lecturer in International Economic Law at the University of Edinburgh. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Young Academy of Scotland and was an inaugural International Rule of Law Fellow at the Bingham Centre.

Summary

Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, Deval Desai presents the novel concept of 'expert ignorance', a practice by which experts continually admit the limits of their knowledge. With a range of illustrative case studies, Desai demonstrates the impact of this powerful yet paradoxical form of expertise in rule of law reform and beyond.

Foreword

Adopts an interdisciplinary approach to study 'expert ignorance', or the power of experts who continually admit the limits of their knowledge.

Product details

• Authors: Deval Desai, Deval (University of Edinburgh) Desai
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.06.2023
• EAN: 9781009284721
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0928472-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Transnational Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law