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9 Hague J. on Rule L. 1 (2017)

handle is hein.journals/hagjuote9 and id is 1 raw text is: Hague J Rule Law (2017) 9:1 2 DOI 10.1007/s40803-016-0049-3 I I , Ronald Janse on Behalf of the Editorial Board of the HJRL Ronald Jansel Published online: 13 February 2017 © T.M.C. Asser Press 2016 Nick Cheesman's much praised Opposing the Rule of Law: How Myanmar's Courts Make Law and Order is the first major study of courts and politics in contemporary Myanmar. It advances both general theory and close empirical description at the highest level. Opposing the Rule of Law contributes significantly and distinctively to the theory of the rule of law and to legal and political theory more generally. It develops a persuasive argument that the rule of law is opposed to law and order, a concept with which it is commonly conflated-in Myanmar but more widely as well. Regimes that 'lack' the rule of law rarely encounter an absence, but the presence of something else, opposed to the rule of law, which has its own characteristics that need to be explored and understood. Such understanding matters both intellectually and practically: to how we think and to what we should do. At the same time, by paying close attention to the Burmese-language records of 393 criminal cases supplemented by findings from fieldwork and archival research of hitherto unutilised or underutilised published and classified official documents, the book pushes the study of politics in contemporary Myanmar beyond the binary of democracy movement versus military dictatorship, and also disrupts conventional thinking about how authoritarian rulers use courts for political ends. As a result of its layered and sophisticated complexity, then, Opposing the Rule of Law not merely advances our understanding of politics and law in Myanmar, but significantly advances contemporary discussion of the rule of law. It is a book of fine detail yet large implication. In June 2016, Opposing the Rule of Law was the subject of a lively Author- Meets-Reader panel discussion at the Law and Society Association's Annual Meeting in New Orleans. Given the manifest interest in the book exhibited by H Ronald Janse r.janse@uva.nl University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands I Springer 0 ASSER PRES;

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