1st Edition
Internationalised Constitution Making and State Formation Negotiating Peace and Statehood in South Sudan and Somaliland
Prelude: Rethinking the Narratives of the Birth of a New Nation
1. Framing a Comparative Constitutional Ethnography
2. Travelling Constitution-Making Models and Legal Pluralism
3. Recipients of the Constitution-Making Model: The Case of Post-Colonial Africa
4. Navigating within the Constitution-Making Model: South Sudan
5. Innovating Beyond the Constitution-Making Model: Somaliland
6. Recapsulating Lessons Learned and Spatialising Constitution-Making
Bibliography
Biography
Katrin Seidel is a habilitated adjunct professor, currently working as a senior researcher at the European Center of Just Transition Research and Impact-Driven Transfer at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. She was Acting Professor for Critical African Studies at the Leipzig University and Senior Research Fellow in the Law & Anthropology Department of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Based on her interdisciplinary background in law, African/Asian studies, and anthropology, her research is situated at the intersection of legal pluralism, statehood and governance, conflict resolution, and postcolonialism.
