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.

• 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.

'A remarkable piece of socio-legal scholarship [made] into an incredibly readable story.' Law and Society Association award citation

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.

• 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.

'A remarkable piece of socio-legal scholarship [made] into an incredibly readable story.' Law and Society Association award citation

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.

• 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.

'A remarkable piece of socio-legal scholarship [made] into an incredibly readable story.' Law and Society Association award citation