This book offers a multifaceted look at Northeast India and the customs and traditions that underpin its legal framework. The book: charts the transition of tra

Based on presentations at a conference at the University of Chicago Law School in November 2005.

A collection of essays that situates and furthers contemporary debates around the prospects of democracy in diverse societies within and beyond the West. Negoti

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The achievements of the democratic constitutional order have long been associated with the sovereign nation-state. Civic nationalist assumptions hold that socia