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This book examines the ways in which ideas about 'the rule of law' travel from the desks of development experts in Brussels and New York to national headquarters in Dhaka and on to villages in rural Bangladesh. The central argument of the book is that these ideas need to change as they travel. To change the ways in which courts are operating in a specific place, ideas about 'the rule of law' need to be translated in ways that make sense to people within that contexts. This book analyses one such process of translation in Bangladesh. It shows how the grassroots level fieldworker of local NGOs translate the rule of law (for example when they translate this secular notion for religious discourses about Islam) and thereby improve the access of poor and marginalized people to local courts.

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Tobias Berger is Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science at the Freie Universitat Berlin. Having studied at SOAS, Oxford, and Berlin, he obtained he PhD at the Freie Unviersitat in 2014. He was a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale and a Junior Visiting Fellow at the Institute for the Human Sciences in Vienna. His research interests are located at the intersection of International Relations, Legal Anthropology, and Political Theory.

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