Akademibokhandeln
Jens Meierhenrich - The Violence of Law, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

The Violence of Law

The Formation and Deformation of Gacaca Courts in Rwanda

Av Jens Meierhenrich

2359 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar. Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

Beskrivning
'Lawfare' describes the systematic use and abuse of legal procedure for political ends. This provocative book examines this insufficiently understood form of warfare in post-genocide Rwanda, where it contributed to the making of dictatorship. Jens Meierhenrich provides a redescription of Rwanda's daring experiment in transitional justice known as inkiko gacaca. By dissecting the temporally and structurally embedded mechanisms and processes by which change agents in post-genocide Rwanda manoeuvred to create modified legal arrangements of things past, Meierhenrich reveals an unexpected jurisprudence of violence. Combining nomothetic and ideographic reasoning, he shows that the deformation of the gacaca courts - and thus the rise of lawfare in post-genocide Rwanda - was not preordained but the outcome of a violently structured contingency. The Violence of Law tells a disturbing tale and will appeal to scholars, advanced students, and practitioners of international and comparative law, African studies and human rights.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-05-02
  • Mått: 160 x 235 x 48 mm
  • Vikt: 1 253 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 770
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781108425391
Utforska kategorier
Mer information

Jens Meierhenrich is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. He has previously taught at Harvard University. His many books include The Legacies of Law (Cambridge, 2008), which won the American Political Science Association's 2009 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, The Remnants of the Rechtsstaat (2018), and, as co-editor, The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law (Cambridge, 2022).

Recensioner i media

'Law is violence, not always (let alone necessarily) an alternative to it, Jens Meierhenrich brilliantly documents in this long-awaited masterpiece, in the process entirely overturning congratulatory, melodramatic, and orientalist depictions of local 'justice.' A genuinely monumental work, in insight as well as in scope.' Samuel Moyn, Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and History, Yale Law School

Butikslager

Ej i lager i butik.

Betyg & recensioner

0 recensioner

Inga recensioner tillgängliga.