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This brief comment on Nick Cheesman’s Opposing the Rule of Law highlights the roles of first, documentary records; second, ethnographic engagements and methodologies; and third, the analytic traction gained by illuminating the concept of rule of law through juxtaposing rule of law with the asymmetrically opposed concept of law and order.
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Commentary on Opposing the Rule of Law: How Myanmar’s Courts Make Law and Order by Nick Cheesman.
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Rajah, J. Enlivening Rule of Law Through Law and Order. Hague J Rule Law 9, 15–18 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40803-016-0042-x
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