Mark Fathi Massoud. “The Legal Profession’s Promise Of Justice: Choices And Challenges In Legal And Socio-Legal Work.” In The Legal Process and the Promise of Justice: Studies Inspired by the Work of Malcolm Feeley. Edited by Rosann Greenspan, Hadar Aviram, and Jonathan Simon, pp. 314-334. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2019. This chapter examines the …
Mark Fathi Massoud, “The Rule of Law in Fragile States: Dictatorship, Collapse, and the Politics of Religion in Post-Colonial Somalia.” Journal of Law and Society, vol. 47, no. 1 (2020): 111-125. Summary: The fate of the rule of law in fragile states rests in religious politics. Three defining periods of Somali politics illustrate this argument. …
Mark Fathi Massoud, “International Arbitration and Judicial Politics in Authoritarian States.” Law & Social Inquiry, vol. 39, no. 1 (2014): 1–30 Summary: This article uses the case of Sudan to show how authoritarian regimes benefit from embracing international arbitration, allowing them to maintain domestic control and attract foreign investment. International arbitration ensures that foreign-investment disputes …