Frank M. Munger. “Thailand’s Cause Lawyers and Twenty-First Century Military Coups: Nation, Identity, and Conflicting Visions of the Rule of Law.” Asian Journal of Law and Society, vol. 2, no. 2 (2015): 301–322.
This essay explores how conflicts among Thai cause lawyers over the legitimacy of recent coups reveal divergent interpretations of the rule of law, challenging the idea of a universally accepted legal norm and showing instead how legal meaning is shaped by national identity, generational experiences, and ties to social movements in Thailand’s evolving democratic context.