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Genocide - A Reader (Hardcover): Jens Meierhenrich Genocide - A Reader (Hardcover)
Jens Meierhenrich
R3,930 Discovery Miles 39 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Genocide is a phenomenon that continues to confound scholars, practitioners, and general readers. Notwithstanding the carnage of the twentieth century, our understanding of genocide remains partial. Disciplinary boundaries have inhibited integrative studies and popular, moralizing accounts have hindered comprehension by advancing simple truths in an area where none are to be had. Genocide: A Reader lays the foundations for an improved understanding of genocide. With the help of 150 essential contributions, Jens Meierhenrich provides a unique introduction to the myriad dimensions of genocide and to the breadth and range of critical thinking that exists concerning it. This innovative anthology offers genre-defining as well as genre-bending selections from diverse disciplines in law, the social sciences, and the humanities as well as from other fields. A wide-ranging introductory chapter on the study and history of genocide accompanies the carefully curated and annotated collection. By revisiting the past of genocide studies and imagining its future, Genocide: A Reader is an indispensable resource for novices and specialists alike.

The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law (Hardcover): Jens Meierhenrich, Martin Loughlin The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law (Hardcover)
Jens Meierhenrich, Martin Loughlin
R3,389 Discovery Miles 33 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law introduces students, scholars, and practitioners to the theory and history of the rule of law, one of the most frequently invoked-and least understood-ideas of legal and political thought and policy practice. It offers a comprehensive re-assessment by leading scholars of one of the world's most cherished traditions. This high-profile collection provides the first global and interdisciplinary account of the histories, moralities, pathologies and trajectories of the rule of law. Unique in conception, and critical in its approach, it evaluates, breaks down, and subverts conventional wisdom about the rule of law for the twenty-first century.

The Violence of Law - The Formation and Deformation of Gacaca Courts in Rwanda: Jens Meierhenrich The Violence of Law - The Formation and Deformation of Gacaca Courts in Rwanda
Jens Meierhenrich
R3,361 Discovery Miles 33 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law (Paperback): Jens Meierhenrich, Martin Loughlin The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law (Paperback)
Jens Meierhenrich, Martin Loughlin
R1,308 Discovery Miles 13 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law introduces students, scholars, and practitioners to the theory and history of the rule of law, one of the most frequently invoked-and least understood-ideas of legal and political thought and policy practice. It offers a comprehensive re-assessment by leading scholars of one of the world's most cherished traditions. This high-profile collection provides the first global and interdisciplinary account of the histories, moralities, pathologies and trajectories of the rule of law. Unique in conception, and critical in its approach, it evaluates, breaks down, and subverts conventional wisdom about the rule of law for the twenty-first century.

Political Trials in Theory and History (Paperback): Jens Meierhenrich, Devin O. Pendas Political Trials in Theory and History (Paperback)
Jens Meierhenrich, Devin O. Pendas
R1,130 Discovery Miles 11 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From the trial of Socrates to the post-9/11 military commissions, trials have always been useful instruments of politics. Yet there is still much that we do not understand about them. Why do governments use trials to pursue political objectives, and when? What differentiates political trials from ordinary ones? Contrary to conventional wisdom, not all political trials are show trials or contrive to set up scapegoats. This volume offers a novel account of political trials that is empirically rigorous and theoretically sophisticated, linking state-of-the-art research on telling cases to a broad argument about political trials as a socio-legal phenomenon. All the contributors analyse the logic of the political in the courtroom. From archival research to participant observation, and from linguistic anthropology to game theory, the volume offers a genuinely interdisciplinary set of approaches that substantially advance existing knowledge about what political trials are, how they work, and why they matter.

The Legacies of Law - Long-Run Consequences of Legal Development in South Africa, 1652-2000 (Paperback): Jens Meierhenrich The Legacies of Law - Long-Run Consequences of Legal Development in South Africa, 1652-2000 (Paperback)
Jens Meierhenrich
R1,121 Discovery Miles 11 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Focusing on South Africa during the period 1650-2000, this book examines the role of law in making democracy work in changing societies. The Legacies of Law sheds light on the neglected relationship between path dependence and the law. Meierhenrich argues that legal norms and institutions, even illiberal ones, have an important - and hitherto undertheorized - structuring effect on democratic outcomes. Under certain conditions, law appears to reduce uncertainty in democratization by invoking common cultural backgrounds and experiences. In instances where interacting adversaries share qua law reasonably convergent mental models, transitions from authoritarian rule are shown to be less intractable. Meierhenrich's historical analysis of the evolution of law - and its effects - in South Africa during the period 1650-2000, compared with a short study of Chile from 1830-1990, shows how, and when, legal norms and institutions serve as historical causes to both liberal and illiberal rule.

The Legacies of Law - Long-Run Consequences of Legal Development in South Africa, 1652-2000 (Hardcover): Jens Meierhenrich The Legacies of Law - Long-Run Consequences of Legal Development in South Africa, 1652-2000 (Hardcover)
Jens Meierhenrich
R2,319 R2,072 Discovery Miles 20 720 Save R247 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This highly original book examines the function of legal norms and institutions in the transition to and from apartheid. It sheds light on the neglected relationship between path dependence and the law. The Legacies of Law demonstrates that legal norms and institutions, even illiberal ones, can have an important and hitherto undertheorized structuring effect on democratic transitions. Focusing on South Africa during the period 1650 2000, Jens Meierhenrich finds that under certain conditions, law reduces uncertainty in democratization by invoking common cultural backgrounds and experiences. Synthesizing insights from law, political science, economics, sociology, history, and philosophy, he offers an innovative redescription of both apartheid and apartheid s endgame. The Legacies of Law demonstrates that in instances in which interacting adversaries share qua law reasonably convergent mental models, transitions from authoritarian rule are less intractable. Meierhenrich s careful longitudinal analysis of the evolution of law and its effects in South Africa, compared with a short study of Chile from 1830 to 1990, shows how, and when, legal norms and institutions serve as historical parameters to both democratic and undemocratic rule. By so doing, The Legacies of Law contributes new and unexpected insights both theoretical and applied to contemporary debates about democracy and the rule of law. Among other things, Meierhenrich significantly advances our understanding of hybrid regimes in the international system and generates important policy-relevant insights into the politics of law and courts in authoritarian regimes."

The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt (Paperback): Jens Meierhenrich, Oliver Simons The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt (Paperback)
Jens Meierhenrich, Oliver Simons
R1,628 Discovery Miles 16 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt collects thirty original chapters on the diverse oeuvre of one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) was a German theorist whose anti-liberalism continues to inspire scholars and practitioners on both the Left and the Right. Despite Schmitt's rabid anti-semitism and partisan legal practice in Nazi Germany, the appeal of his trenchant critiques of, among other things, aestheticism, representative democracy, and international law as well as of his theoretical justifications of dictatorship and rule by exception is undiminished. Uniquely located at the intersection of law, the social sciences, and the humanities, this volume brings together sophisticated yet accessible interpretations of Schmitt's sprawling thought and complicated biography. The contributors hail from diverse disciplines, including art, law, literature, philosophy, political science, and history. In addition to opening up exciting new avenues of research, The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt provides the intellectual foundations for an improved understanding of the political, legal, and cultural thought of this most infamous of German theorists. A substantial introduction places the trinity of Schmitt's thought in a broad context.

The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt (Hardcover): Jens Meierhenrich, Oliver Simons The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt (Hardcover)
Jens Meierhenrich, Oliver Simons
R4,238 Discovery Miles 42 380 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt collects thirty original chapters on the diverse oeuvre of one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) was a German theorist whose anti-liberalism continues to inspire scholars and practitioners on both the Left and the Right. Despite Schmitt's rabid antisemitism and partisan legal practice in Nazi Germany, the appeal of his trenchant critiques of, among other things, aestheticism, representative democracy, and international law as well as of his theoretical justifications of dictatorship and rule by exception is undiminished. Uniquely located at the intersection of law, the social sciences, and the humanities, this volume brings together sophisticated yet accessible interpretations of Schmitt's sprawling thought and complicated biography. The contributors hail from diverse disciplines, including art, law, literature, philosophy, political science, and history. In addition to opening up exciting new avenues of research, The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt provides the intellectual foundations for an improved understanding of the political, legal, and cultural thought of this most infamous of German theorists. A substantial introduction places the trinity of Schmitt's thought in a broad context.

The Dual State - A Contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship (Paperback): Ernst Fraenkel The Dual State - A Contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship (Paperback)
Ernst Fraenkel; Translated by E. A. Shills; Jens Meierhenrich
R1,303 Discovery Miles 13 030 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Dual State, first published in 1941, remains one of the most erudite books on the logic of dictatorship. It was the first comprehensive analysis of the rise and nature of National Socialism and the only such analysis written from within Hitler's Germany. Ernst Fraenkel's courageous ethnography of law was widely acclaimed upon publication, and it has influenced considerably postwar debates about the nature of the Third Reich. But The Dual State also has relevance for the study of dictatorship in the twenty-first century. Fraenkel's innovative concept of the dual state, with its two halvesthe normative state (which generally respects its own laws and regulations) and the prerogative state (which violates them wantonly) illuminates powerfully the complicated relationship between law and order in many countries around the world. It speaks directly to the idea of an authoritarian rule of law. This republication of Fraenkel's classic makes it once again available to scholars and students in law, the social sciences, and the humanities. It includes Fraenkel's 1974 preface to and two appendices from the first German editionnever before published in English. An extensive introduction by Jens Meierhenrich places Fraenkel's ethnography of law in historical and theoretical context.

Political Trials in Theory and History (Hardcover): Jens Meierhenrich, Devin O. Pendas Political Trials in Theory and History (Hardcover)
Jens Meierhenrich, Devin O. Pendas
R3,008 Discovery Miles 30 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From the trial of Socrates to the post-9/11 military commissions, trials have always been useful instruments of politics. Yet there is still much that we do not understand about them. Why do governments use trials to pursue political objectives, and when? What differentiates political trials from ordinary ones? Contrary to conventional wisdom, not all political trials are show trials or contrive to set up scapegoats. This volume offers a novel account of political trials that is empirically rigorous and theoretically sophisticated, linking state-of-the-art research on telling cases to a broad argument about political trials as a socio-legal phenomenon. All the contributors analyse the logic of the political in the courtroom. From archival research to participant observation, and from linguistic anthropology to game theory, the volume offers a genuinely interdisciplinary set of approaches that substantially advance existing knowledge about what political trials are, how they work, and why they matter.

The Remnants of the Rechtsstaat - An Ethnography of Nazi Law (Hardcover): Jens Meierhenrich The Remnants of the Rechtsstaat - An Ethnography of Nazi Law (Hardcover)
Jens Meierhenrich
R2,525 Discovery Miles 25 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is an intellectual history of Ernst Fraenkel's The Dual State (1941, reissued 2017), one of the most erudite books on the theory of dictatorship ever written. Fraenkel's was the first comprehensive analysis of the rise and nature of Nazism, and the only such analysis written from within Hitler's Germany. His sophisticated-not to mention courageous-analysis amounted to an ethnography of Nazi law. As a result of its clandestine origins, The Dual State has been hailed as the ultimate piece of intellectual resistance to the Nazi regime. In this book, Jens Meierhenrich revives Fraenkel's innovative concept of "the dual state," restoring it to its rightful place in the annals of public law scholarship. Blending insights from legal theory and legal history, he tells in an accessible manner the remarkable gestation of Fraenkel's ethnography of law from inside the belly of the behemoth. In addition to questioning the conventional wisdom about the law of the Third Reich, Meierhenrich explores the legal origins of dictatorship elsewhere, then and now. The book sets the parameters for a theory of the "authoritarian rule of law," a cutting edge topic in law and society scholarship with immediate policy implications.

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