@article{910320,
      recid = {910320},
      author = {Massoud, Mark Fathi.},
      title = {Law's fragile state colonial, authoritarian, and  humanitarian legacies in Sudan / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge [England] :},
      pages = {xxii, 277 p. :},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {"How do a legal order and the rule of law develop in a  war-torn state? Using his field research in Sudan, the  author uncovers how colonial administrators, postcolonial  governments, and international aid agencies have used legal  tools, practices, and resources to promote stability and  their own visions of the rule of law amid political  violence and war in Sudan. Tracing the dramatic development  of three forms of legal politics - colonial, authoritarian,  and humanitarian - this book contributes to a growing body  of scholarship on law in authoritarian regimes and on human  rights and legal empowerment programs in the Global South.  Refuting the conventional wisdom of a legal vacuum in  failed states, this book reveals how law matters deeply  even in the most extreme cases of states still fighting for  political stability"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/910320},
}