Jens Meierhenrich

Gebundenes Buch

The Violence of Law

The Formation and Deformation of Gacaca Courts in Rwanda

Beschreibung

""Lawfare" describes the systematic use and abuse of legal procedure for political ends which, in post-genocide Rwanda, contributed to the making of dictatorship. Jens Meierhenrich explains how and why Paul Kagame's Tutsi-led government in the period 1994-2019 learned to substitute law for war in its consolidation of authoritarian rule"--

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 770
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 1188g
• ISBN-13: 9781108425391
• ISBN-10: 1108425399
• Artikelnr.: 67981016