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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