Reckoning with Law in Excess, 9781009499545
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Justice seekers push law to its limits, facing disenchantment.
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Reckoning with Law in Excess

mobilization, confrontation, refusal

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    300 pages

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    30 September 2025

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Reckoning with Law in Excess: Navigating Justice in a Tumultuous World

Reckoning with Law in Excess offers a ground-breaking approach to understanding the relationship between law and social and political transformation in a changing and uncertain world.

The book’s authors examine a wide range of case studies in which social movements pursue justice and social change within, against, and beyond the law. The interdisciplinary research at the heart of the volume reveals patter…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781009499545
ISBN-10:1009499548
Author:Mark Goodale, Olaf Zenker
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Imprint:Cambridge University Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:300
Release Date:30 September 2025
Weight:0g
About The Author

Mark Goodale

Mark Goodale is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology and Director of the Laboratory of Cultural and Social Anthropology (LACS) at the University of Lausanne. One of the pioneers in the anthropology of human rights, he is the author or editor of a number of books on law, human rights, and justice, including Reinventing Human Rights (2022).

Olaf Zenker is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. His research deals with political and legal issues such as statehood, bureaucracy, the rule of law, normative pluralities, inequality and justice. His latest book publications include Beyond Expropriation without Compensation: Law, Land Reform and Redistributive Justice in South Africa (2024).

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