Author: Nadaraja
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900464444X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357

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Author: Viktor Knapp
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN: 9789024727872
Category : Comparative law
Languages : en
Pages : 820

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Author: Benjamin Schonthal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107152232
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 319

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Examining Sri Lanka's religious and legal pasts, this is the first extended study of Buddhism and constitutional law.

Author: Trinity College (Hartford, Conn.). College Library
Publisher:
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Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Author: Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan
Publisher: International Law and the Glob
ISBN: 9789811375101
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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This book examines the engagement between the United Nations' human rights machinery and the respective governments since Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) joined the United Nations. Sri Lanka has a long and rich history of engagement with international human rights instruments. However, despite its active membership in the UN, the country's post-colonial trials and tribulations are emblematic of the limited influence the international organisation has exerted on this country in the Global South. Assessing the impact of this international engagement on the country's human rights infrastructure and situation, the book outlines Sri Lanka's colonial and post-colonial development. It then considers the development of a domestic human rights infrastructure in the country. It also examines and analyzes Sri Lanka's engagement with the UN's treaty-based and charter-based human rights bodies, before offering conclusions concerning the impact of said engagement. The book offers an innovative approach to gauging the impact of international human rights engagement, while also taking into account the colonial and post-colonial imperatives that have partly dictated governmental behaviour. By doing so, the book seeks to combine and analyse international human rights law, post-colonial critique, studies on biopower, and critical approaches to international law. It will be a useful resource not only for scholars of international law, but also for practitioners and activists working in this area.

Author: Frederick Charles Hicks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Briefs
Languages : en
Pages : 638

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Author: James S. Duncan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000089827
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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This book offers in-depth insights on the struggles implementing the rule of law in nineteenth century Ceylon, introduced into the colonies by the British as their “greatest gift.” The book argues that resistance can be understood as a form of negotiation to lessen oppressive colonial conditions, and that the cumulative impact caused continual adjustments to the criminal justice system, weighing it down and distorting it. The tactical use of rule of law is explored within the three bureaucracies: the police, the courts and the prisons. Policing was often “governed at a distance” due to fiscal constraints and economic priorities and the enforcement of law was often delegated to underpaid Ceylonese. Spaces of resistance opened up as Ceylon was largely left to manage its own affairs. Villagers, minor officials, as well as senior British government officials, alternately used or subverted the rule of law to achieve their own goals. In the courts, the imported system lacked political legitimacy and consequently the Ceylonese undermined it by embracing it with false cases and information, in the interests of achieving justice as they saw it. In the prisons, administrators developed numerous biopolitical techniques and medical experiments in order to punish prisoners’ bodies to their absolute lawful limit. This limit was one which prison officials, prisoners, and doctors negotiated continuously over the decades. The book argues that the struggles around rule of law can best be understood not in terms of a dualism of bureaucrats versus the public, but rather as a set of shifting alliances across permeable bureaucratic boundaries. It offers innovative perspectives, comparing the Ceylonese experiences to those of Britain and India, and where appropriate to other European colonies. This book will appeal to those interested in law, history, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, cultural and political geography.

Author: Chidambaram Ramesh
Publisher: Publisher Website
ISBN: 9382070362
Category : Administrative courts
Languages : en
Pages : 151

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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 446

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Covers general areas of Scottish law including criminal, commercial, contract, delict, environmental, family, administrative, and socio-legal issues. Also includes some articles on comparative law, plus book reviews and case notes.

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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 884

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