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Author:   Katrin Seidel ,  Hatem Elliesie
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.576kg
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9780367859060

ISBN 10:   0367859068
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   29 June 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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PROLOGUE Normative Spaces In Africa: Constructing, Contesting, Renegotiating, And Adapting Dynamics Katrin Seidel And Hatem Elliesie PART I constructing Normative Spaces 1 ‘Forensic Fetishism’ And Human Rights After Violent Conflict: Uncovering Somaliland’s Troubled Past Markus Virgil Hoehne And Shakira Bedoya Sánchez 2 Transitional Justice Atmospheres: The Role Of Space And Affect In The International Criminal Court’s Outreach Efforts In Northern Uganda Jonas Bens 3 The Libyan Constitution-Making Process: A Tool For State-Building In A Divided Socio-Normative Space? Felix-Anselm Van Lier PART II Contesting Normative Spaces 4 Challenges, Limits, And Prospects Of ‘Judicial Governance’ In Nigeria’s Political Translation (1999–2014) Hakeem O Yusuf 5 Contesting Normative Spaces: The Status Of African Traditional Courts Under International Human Rights Law Prosper Simbarashe Maguchu 6 Protecting Groups In Africa: Between International Law, National Law, And Local Customary Law Julia Kriesel PART III Re-Negotiating Normative Spaces 7 Mind The Gaps: Renegotiating South African Legal Pluralism Within The Post-Apartheid State Olaf Zenker 8 Judicial Governance In Ghana: Negotiating Jurisdictional Authority In The Post-Colonial State Tillmann Schneider 9 Living Customary Law In South Africa: Negotiating Spaces For Women In Traditional Communities Lisa Heemann PART IV Adapting Normative Spaces 10 The Legal Laboratory In Rwanda: Experimentalization And Adaptation Stefanie Bognitz 11 Negotiated Outcomes In Low-Resourced Courts: Tanzania’s Land Courts System Kelly Askew 12 Land Grabbing In Ethiopia: Questioning FDI And Big Government Projects Daniel Behailu Gebreamanuel 13 Whither Courts? Forest Protection In Kenya: Case Of Mau Forest Hannah W Wanderi EPILOGUE Beyond A Linear Model Of Law In Space And Time Anne Griffiths

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Katrin Seidel is a research fellow in the Law and Anthropology Department of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany, a former post-doctoral fellow at Käte Hamburger Kolleg, Centre for Global Cooperation Research, and the Academic Coordinator of the ‘RSF Hub’ (Joint Network Rule of Law support) at Freie Universität Berlin, in collaboration with the German Federal Foreign Office. Based on her interdisciplinary background in law and African/Asian studies, her research is situated at the intersection of legal pluralism, heterogeneous statehood, and governance. Hatem Elliesie is a Max Planck Group Leader in the Law and Anthropology Department of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology as well as member of the Executive Committee of the African Law Association in Germany. He earned his PhD at the Freie University in Berlin, with a dissertation dealing with Ethiopia’s and Eritrea’s related legal history, and holds a Magister Legum Europae (MLE) degree from Malta University and the University of Hannover.

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