Between law and culture: Rwanda's gacaca and postcolonial legality

Law and Social Inquiry

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 467-508

  Meyerstein, Ariel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 34250218246     PISSN: 08976546     EISSN: 17474469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-4469.2007.00066.x     Document Type: Article

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