Global Norms and Local Courts Translating the Rule of Law in Bangladesh

Tobias Berger, Assistant Professor, Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science, Freie Universitat Berlin

Tobias Berger is Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science at the Freie Universitat Berlin. Having studied at SOAS, Oxford, and Berlin, he obtained he PhD at the Freie Unviersitat in 2014. He was a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale and a Junior Visiting Fellow at the Institute for the Human Sciences in Vienna. His research interests are located at the intersection of International Relations, Legal Anthropology, and Political Theory.

1. Introduction: Global Norms and Local Courts
Part I
2. Norms in Translations
3. The Village Courts in Bangladesh
4. Between the State and the Shalish: the Logic of Non-Enforcement
Part II
5. The Project 'Activating the Village Courts'
6. Translating Institutions
7. Translating Practices and Normative Orders
8. Conclusion: All that's Lost in Re-Translation