“…Yet even before Ko Ni’s assassination, there was an almost obsessive focus on the rule of law in Myanmar, and its various meanings and prospects. From Cheesman’s comprehensive dissection of the inherently contested nature of the concept and its relationship to democracy (2009, 2014, 2015a, 2015b, 2016, 2017), to Prasse-Freeman’s discussion of the way in which it relates to broader concepts of informal social justice (Prasse-Freeman, 2014, 2015), the rule of law in Myanmar has been a popular subject for academic analysis. Development practitioners, domestic and international policymakers and civil society organizations alike have also heralded the rule of law as the key to Myanmar’s future prosperity and social harmony (Crouch, 2017b; UNDP, 2016; USAID, 2017; Xinhua, 2018).…”