{"product_id":"the-violence-of-law-the-formation-and-deformation-of-gacaca-courts-in-rwanda-paperback-softback-9781108442282","title":"The Violence of Law; The Formation and Deformation of Gacaca Courts in Rwanda (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108442282","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Violence of Law\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Formation and Deformation of Gacaca Courts in Rwanda\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExamines 'lawfare' (a little understood form of warfare) in post-genocide Rwanda, where it contributed to the making of dictatorship.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJens Meierhenrich (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108442282, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 31 July 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e770 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.9 cm, 1.093 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWeaving together on-the-ground observations, political theories, photographic evidence, and historical narratives, The Violence of Law exposes how brutal effects of power can be accompanied by a narrative of victimhood, mobilizing international sympathy.' Martha Minow, 300th Anniversary University Professor, Harvard Law School\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Lawfare' describes the systematic use and abuse of legal procedure for political ends. This provocative book examines this insufficiently understood form of warfare in post-genocide Rwanda, where it contributed to the making of dictatorship. Jens Meierhenrich provides a redescription of Rwanda's daring experiment in transitional justice known as inkiko gacaca. By dissecting the temporally and structurally embedded mechanisms and processes by which change agents in post-genocide Rwanda manoeuvred to create modified legal arrangements of things past, Meierhenrich reveals an unexpected jurisprudence of violence. Combining nomothetic and ideographic reasoning, he shows that the deformation of the gacaca courts – and thus the rise of lawfare in post-genocide Rwanda – was not preordained but the outcome of a violently structured contingency. The Violence of Law tells a disturbing tale and will appeal to scholars, advanced students, and practitioners of international and comparative law, African studies and human rights.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Introduction: 1. A justice façade\u003cbr\u003e Part II. A Theoretical Framework: 2. The violence of law\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Emergence of Lawfare: 3. Bending the law\u003cbr\u003e 4. Chambres specialisées: from legalism to lawfare\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The Evolution of Lawfare: 5. Varieties of Gacaca\u003cbr\u003e or: the invention of tradition\u003cbr\u003e 6. Violent legalization\u003cbr\u003e 7. Lineages of governmentality\u003cbr\u003e 8. The supply and demand of law\u003cbr\u003e 9. The marketing of genocide\u003cbr\u003e Part V. The Effects of Lawfare: 10. In a field of pain and death: lawfare in the countryside\u003cbr\u003e 11. A cartography of silence\u003cbr\u003e Part VI. Conclusion: 12. The political economy of lawfare.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Constitution: government \u0026amp; the state [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Constitution: government \u0026amp; the state\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Constitution:%20government%20\u0026amp;%20the%20state%20%5BJPHC%5D%22\"\u003eJPHC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52501095973144,"sku":"9781108442282","price":30.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781108442282i.jpg?v=1786210048","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-violence-of-law-the-formation-and-deformation-of-gacaca-courts-in-rwanda-paperback-softback-9781108442282","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}