Spectacles of illegality: mapping Ethiopia’s show trials

Allo, Awol; Tesfaye, Beza

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“…Both trials are show trials in that they have had consequences beyond the courtroom and are to be understood "within different historical, normative, and political frames." 51 What is more, pre-trial publicity raises questions concerning the presumption of innocence and affect working on juries and judges alike. If pressured by the media for information, the police and the prosecutor may, for example, give in to confirmation bias, i.e., seek whatever evidence confirms their initial hunch, to show that they are on the case.…”

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Feel, Show, Tell: affect and legality in the trial as performance

Gaakeer

2023

Law, Culture & the Humanities

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In this article I aim to rise to the bait thrown my way by Greta Olson where she posits ( From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect, p.121) that law-and-affect scholarship is anti-narrative, and provocatively imagines that I would shake my head and chuckle, asking what one is to do with the questions asked by scholarship on emotion and affect in actual legal practice. As one spending most of her time in judicial practice I am not only firmly convinced of the importance of narrative in law, what is more, I often have to steep myself in the legal effects of emotion and affect and ask what consequences they should have for the people involved. I will therefore consider the trial as a performance, i.e., a show trial in the positive sense that as a performance shows and tells that it has read well what is brought before the court.

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Feel, Show, Tell: affect and legality in the trial as performance

Gaakeer

2023

Law, Culture & the Humanities

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“…Post-apartheid South Africa is a classic example of a human rights state in the post-cold war era (Mutua 2009). In contrast, in countries such as Ethiopia, not only are constitutionalism, multi-party democracy and respect for human rights lacking, the incumbent government uses law as a tool of their authoritarian rule (Arriola and Lyons 2016;Allo and Tesfaye 2015). Even worse, states such as South Sudan and Somalia are struggling to establish a governance system based on constitutions.…”

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The Janus face of legal pluralism for the rule of law promotion in sub-Saharan Africa

Gebeye

2019

Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des étud

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Beyond being a descriptive framework of the legal universe in sub-Saharan Africa, legal pluralism has become a policy field in the rule of law promotion. The aim of this article is to problematize and clarify how legal pluralism has been deployed for rule of law, and on what grounds sustainable rule of law through legal pluralism hold. Due to the syncretic nature of the state in sub-Saharan Africa, it is contended that legal pluralism is configured with a Janus face. While one face of legal pluralism connects the state to the society and is positioned to maintain internal peace and order, the other face connects the state to the international community and consequently shields it from external threat. This article argues that a sustainable rule of law promotion rests on the dialectic of the constitutional systems and the Janus faced configuration of legal pluralism in sub-Saharan Africa. RÉSUMÉAu-delà de sa fonction de cadre descriptif de l'univers juridique en Afrique subsaharienne, le pluralisme juridique est devenu un champ politique de la promotion de l'état de droit. L'objectif de cet article est la problématisation et la clarification de la manière dont le pluralisme juridique a été déployé pour l'état de droit, et des bases sur lesquelles, à travers le pluralisme juridique, un état de droit durable peut s'appuyer. En raison du caractère syncrétique de l'État en Afrique subsaharienne, nous soutenons que le pluralisme juridique est configuré comme une figure de Janus à deux faces. Alors qu'une face du pluralisme juridique connecte l'état de la société et est positionnée pour le maintien de la paix et de l'ordre intérieurs, l'autre face connecte l'État à la communauté internationale et, en conséquence, la protège des menaces extérieures. Cet article soutient que la promotion d'un état de droit durable repose sur la dialectique des systèmes constitutionnels et sur la configuration en double face de Janus du pluralisme juridique en Afrique subsaharienne.

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Toward Making a Proper Space for the Individual in the Ethiopian Constitution

Gebeye

2017

Hum Rights Rev

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Spectacles of illegality: mapping Ethiopia’s show trials

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Cited by 5 publications

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Feel, Show, Tell: affect and legality in the trial as performance

Feel, Show, Tell: affect and legality in the trial as performance

The Janus face of legal pluralism for the rule of law promotion in sub-Saharan Africa

Toward Making a Proper Space for the Individual in the Ethiopian Constitution

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