Public Law in a Hybrid State - Legal Reform and Global Sociology in Uzbekistan

Public Law in a Hybrid State presents a broad sociological analysis of legal developments in contemporary Uzbekistan, using this example to assess why states with some authoritarian features may promote legal reforms and why the modernization of legal institutions may generate benefits for governments. It examines how, alongside constitutional changes, reforms in administrative law play an important role in polities with hybrid constitutions, shaping the architecture of government and constructing procedures to manage exchanges between government and citizens. Placing these reform processes in the longer-term context of postimperial history, it also shows how changes to legal systems acquire distinctive importance in societies with recent experiences of decolonization, uncertain sovereignty, and unstable patterns of citizenship.

About the author

Chris Thornhill is Professor of Law at the University of Birmingham.

Rustam Urinboyev is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology of Law at Lund University.

Tolibjon Mustafoev is a PhD Candidate in Sociology of Law at Lund University.

Product details

• Authors: Tolibjon Mustafoev, Chris John Thornhill, Thornhill Chris, Rustamjon Urinboyev
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 12.06.2026
• EAN: 9780520402256
• ISBN: 978-0-520-40225-6
• No. of pages: 226
• Illustrations: 2 b-w figures
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Uzbekistan, LAW / Legal History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, LAW / Constitutional, LAW / Comparative, HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia, Politics & government, Comparative Politics, Legal History, Politics and government, comparative law, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state