Chair: Prof. ad int Jarna Petman (jarna.petman[at]helsinki.fi)
Coordinator: Henri Onodera (henri.onodera[at]helsinki.fi)
This working group includes papers from various academic disciplines that touch the existence of multiple legal systems and norms in Southern development contexts. It also aims to discuss the different forms of rhetoric, tension and strategy that the universalized human rights regime seems to engender at the local level.
Jeremy Gould (University of Helsinki): “Rule of law and the covert state: Public law, politics and exception in Zambia’s ‘War on Corruption’”
Maria Mekri: “Legal Pluralism in Practice – Paradox in the Promotion of Human Rights in Liberia“
Parvathi Menon (University of Helsinki): “The Pluralistic Attitude in the Linguistics of Rules”
Marja Suomela (University of Helsinki): “The role of law in the fight against corruption in Namibia”