Building Law in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States
2. Juli 2015
IACM Lecture Series
How do a legal order and the rule of law develop in a war-torn state? Using his field research in Sudan, Massoud uncovers how colonial administrators, postcolonial governments, and international aid agencies have used legal tools and practices to promote stability and their own visions of the rule of law amid political violence and war in Sudan. Refuting the conventional wisdom of a legal vacuum in fragile states, the book offers a thoughtful and readable account of the important ways that law matters in even the most extreme cases of states still fighting for political stability.
Massoud’s work helps scholars, students, policymakers, and the interested public to make sense of Sudan and what law does, and what it fails to do, in the world's most desperate environments.
Mark Fathi Massoud, from the University of California, Santa Cruz (USA), is the 2015 International Administration and Conflict Management visiting professor at the University of Konstanz. His research focuses on law in conflict settings and authoritarian states, and on Islamic law and society.
His book, Law’s Fragile State, received the Law and Society Association Herbert Jacob Book Prize for best book in law and society and the Honorable Mention Award for the American Political Science Association Pritchett Prize for the best book on law and courts. Massoud spent 15 months in Sudan researching this book.
further information on the book: http://www.cambridge.org/9781107440050
Thu, 2 July 2015, 5 pm
University of Konstanz, Y 311
Contact
Martin Welz iacm[at]uni-konstanz.de