Opposing the Rule of Law How Myanmar's Courts Make Law and Order
The rule of law is a political ideal today endorsed and promoted worldwide. Or is it? In a significant contribution to the field, Nick Cheesman argues that Myanmar is a country in which the rule of law is 'lexically present but semantically absent'. Charting ideas and practices from Britis...
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| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2015
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| Schriftenreihe: | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
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| Zusammenfassung: | The rule of law is a political ideal today endorsed and promoted worldwide. Or is it? In a significant contribution to the field, Nick Cheesman argues that Myanmar is a country in which the rule of law is 'lexically present but semantically absent'. Charting ideas and practices from British colonial rule through military dictatorship to the present day, Cheesman calls upon political and legal theory to explain how and why institutions animated by a concern for law and order oppose the rule of law. Empirically grounded in both Burmese and English sources, including criminal trial records and wide ranging official documents, Opposing the Rule of Law offers the first significant study of courts in contemporary Myanmar. It sheds new light on the politics of courts during dark times and sharply illuminates the tension between the demand for law and the imperatives of order |
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| Beschreibung: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Feb 2016) |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (338 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781107083189 9781316014936 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9781316014936 |