Samuel Fury Childs Daly, Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago. He writes about law, warfare, and the politics of military regimes. Most of his work describes the history of Africa since independence. He asks how soldiers and judges think: how do military dictatorships use law, and how do judiciaries check their powers – or enable them? He also studies what warfare does to legal systems.
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In the last few years, there has been a spate of military coups in Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Sudan and Guinea. Military rule, long dormant in African politics, is back. Coup leaders have suppressed protest, gagged the
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