Laws of the postcolonial
By: edited by Eve Darian-Smith and Peter Fitzpatrick.
Contributors: Darian-Smith, Eve, 1963-; Fitzpatrick, Peter, 1941-.
Series: Law, meaning, and violence
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Legal polycentricity.; Multiculturalism -- Law and legislation.; Postcolonialism.; Cultural relativism.; Culture and law.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Laws of the postcolonial / Peter Fitzpatrick and Eve Darian-Smith; value: Approaching anxiety / Colin Perrin; value: Passions out of place / Peter Fitzpatrick; value: Moral geography of liberty / Paul A. Passavant; value: Francisco de Vitoria and the colonial origins of international law / Antony Anghie; value: Islamic law and English texts / John Strawson; value: The view from the international plane / Annelise Riles; value: Subalternity and international law / Dianne Otto; value: An ontological approach to constitutionalism in Sri Lanka / Roshan de Silva; value: Postcolonialism : the emperor's new clothes? / Jeannine Purdy; value: Rites of passage into the global village / Rolando Gaete; value: From law to popular justice / Alan Norrie; value: Rabies rides the fast train / Eve Darian-Smith.