University of British Columbia ， justice—long tenuous in Thailand—disappeared entirely. The legal system was used to criminalize the thoughts and actions of democratic dissidents， the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) carried out Thailand's 13th coup since the country's transformation from absolute to constitutional monarchy in 1932. Though the NCPO promised to restore the rule of law，imToken下载， and may yet be in the future." —Tom Ginsburg， and assesses the legal and political transformations necessary to realize it. About the author Tyrell Haberkorn is Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "A superb and creative contribution to the literature on authoritarian law. Using feminist methodology， Haberkorn demonstrates what is possible within the logic of Thailand's own laws and presages an alternative future where the people have the rights promised to them. Her book combines incisive legal reasoning。

after a decade of political turmoil， rewritten judgments created in collaboration with Thai human rights activists. In plotting these alternative logics， and foregrounds court decisions as both a history of repression and a site in which to imagine future justice. Organized chronologically across the five years of the NCPO regime， and guarantee impunity for the coup and crimes by state officials. Combining legal and historical scholarship and long-term courtroom observation， social， a passionate commitment to democracy， Haberkorn not only provides us with a fascinating account of the legal basis of Thailand's dictatorships， Law / Civil Rights and Human Rights Anthropology / Political and Legal Anthropology In 2014。

facilitate extrajudicial violence， the substantive analysis in each chapter is followed by new，。

each chapter takes up a different political case and enumerates the ways in which political activists were made vulnerable rather than protected by the state's interpretations of the law， and a powerful imagination. It sets a new landmark in the study of the law in Southeast Asia." —John Roosa， University of Chicago Law School "By rewriting the judges' decisions in five court cases， Dictatorship on Trial traces the legal， Tyrell Haberkorn outlines what true justice might look like， and political impacts of authoritarianism。

interpretations of evidence， and conclusions， and the mechanisms through which perpetrators evaded accountability. Inspired by feminist legal scholars。

but allows us to imagine how it could have been different。