How does a strong and independent judiciary emerge in a colonial or authoritarian state? What is the relationship between law and political power when the state is weak or legal authority is fragmented? This dissertation, which covers a period of Sudanese history stretching from colonization in 1898 to the collapse of the Numayri regime in 1985, argues that judicial strength and independence emerged as a direct result of regime policy, which sought to deploy the judiciary as a means of maintaining security, reducing bureaucratic inefficiency, and managing political activism. In this context, the fragmented and pluralist nature of Sudan's legal system is actually part of what has made state power possible, as it allowed successive regimes...
South Sudan’s courts have continued to function despite the extreme pressures of civil war, atrociti...
South Sudanese legal system is identified as a pluralistic legal system in which African customary l...
So often the English language literature accepts the civilizing mission and even-handed governan...
This dissertation examines how judicial institutions in sub-Saharan Africa were used to both legitim...
This study seeks to explain the paradoxical expansion of constitutional power in Egypt over the past...
Sudan and South Sudan have suffered from repeated cycles of conflict and authoritarianism resulting ...
This paper had been presented for promotion at the University of Khartoum. To get the full text plea...
This thesis analyzes the institutional development of the Sudanese police between 1924 and 1989, foc...
According to the so-called Insurance Theory of judicial empowerment, incumbent elites create indepen...
The paper focuses on constitution making as part of broader Rule of Law (RoL) frames in emerging Sou...
Scholars have generally assumed that courts in authoritarian states are pawns oftheir regimes, uphol...
South Sudan gained independence on 9 June 2011 after a prolonged period of oppression and conflict w...
In recent years, scholars of authoritarianism have noted a trend in which institutions designed to c...
Can Islamic Law co-exist with a democratic constitution? Currently, in Sudan, such a co-existence is...
The topic for this Master thesis is Constitutional Development in Sudan from 1956-2005. This thesis ...
South Sudan’s courts have continued to function despite the extreme pressures of civil war, atrociti...
South Sudanese legal system is identified as a pluralistic legal system in which African customary l...
So often the English language literature accepts the civilizing mission and even-handed governan...
This dissertation examines how judicial institutions in sub-Saharan Africa were used to both legitim...
This study seeks to explain the paradoxical expansion of constitutional power in Egypt over the past...
Sudan and South Sudan have suffered from repeated cycles of conflict and authoritarianism resulting ...
This paper had been presented for promotion at the University of Khartoum. To get the full text plea...
This thesis analyzes the institutional development of the Sudanese police between 1924 and 1989, foc...
According to the so-called Insurance Theory of judicial empowerment, incumbent elites create indepen...
The paper focuses on constitution making as part of broader Rule of Law (RoL) frames in emerging Sou...
Scholars have generally assumed that courts in authoritarian states are pawns oftheir regimes, uphol...
South Sudan gained independence on 9 June 2011 after a prolonged period of oppression and conflict w...
In recent years, scholars of authoritarianism have noted a trend in which institutions designed to c...
Can Islamic Law co-exist with a democratic constitution? Currently, in Sudan, such a co-existence is...
The topic for this Master thesis is Constitutional Development in Sudan from 1956-2005. This thesis ...
South Sudan’s courts have continued to function despite the extreme pressures of civil war, atrociti...
South Sudanese legal system is identified as a pluralistic legal system in which African customary l...
So often the English language literature accepts the civilizing mission and even-handed governan...