The Violence of Law

The Formation and Deformation of Gacaca Courts in Rwanda

Jens Meierhenrich (London School of Economics and Political Science)

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English

Cambridge University Press
02 May 2024

'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.

By: Jens Meierhenrich (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781108425391
ISBN 10: 1108425399
Pages: 770
Publication Date: 02 May 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Part I. Introduction: 1. A justice façade; Part II. A Theoretical Framework: 2. The violence of law; Part III. The Emergence of Lawfare: 3. Bending the law; 4. Chambres specialisées: from legalism to lawfare; Part IV. The Evolution of Lawfare: 5. Varieties of Gacaca; or: the invention of tradition; 6. Violent legalization; 7. Lineages of governmentality; 8. The supply and demand of law; 9. The marketing of genocide; Part V. The Effects of Lawfare: 10. In a field of pain and death: lawfare in the countryside; 11. A cartography of silence; Part VI. Conclusion: 12. The political economy of lawfare.

Jens Meierhenrich is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. He has previously taught at Harvard University. His many books include The Legacies of Law (Cambridge, 2008), which won the American Political Science Association's 2009 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, The Remnants of the Rechtsstaat (2018), and, as co-editor, The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law (Cambridge, 2022).