Beschreibung:
Laura Grenfell is a senior lecturer in law at the University of Adelaide, Australia, where she teaches transitional justice, human rights, comparative constitutional law and public law.
Laura Grenfell critically evaluates how the rule of law is contextualized and promoted in states where customary law is prevalent.
Part I: 1. Introduction; 2. The globalised relationship between the rule of law and legal pluralism; 3. The conceptual relationship between the rule of law and legal pluralism in post-conflict states; Part II: 4. 'One law for one nation' - how the rule of law and legal pluralism figure in South Africa's constitutional dispensation; 5. Can the rule of law and legal pluralism assist 'the most vulnerable groups' in South Africa?; Part III: 6. Founding a legal system in post-conflict Timor-Leste; 7. Timor-Leste's first decade of independence; 8. Conclusion.