Adam Baczko is CNRS Research Associate Professor at the Centre for International Studies of Sciences Po. He holds a PhD from the EHESS and conducts field-based research on the formation of legal institutions by armed movements and international actors in contexts of armed conflict, with a particular focus on Afghanistan, Syria and Mali. With Gilles Dorronsoro and Arthur Quesnay, he is the co-author of Civil War in Syria: Mobilisation and Competing Social Orders (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

It is a well-argued case and fascinating book on an interesting and not well-known country, but the reader may not agree with all the conclusions and arguments made.

• Introduction: A sociological approach to law in civil wars Part I: Legal Uncertainty 1: A revolution in the juridical field 2: The social upheavals of a war-torn society 3: Regime justice: Rubberstamping the balance of power 4: The US Army: Reinventing the tribe, circumventing the courts Part II: The Taliban Courts 5: A bureaucratic system 6: The dual membership of judges 7: The trials Part III: Producing a Social Order Through the Law 8: Judges as an instrument of centralization 9: Legitimation through law 10: The society project Conclusion: The internationalization of law in civil war

Adam Baczko is CNRS Research Associate Professor at the Centre for International Studies of Sciences Po. He holds a PhD from the EHESS and conducts field-based research on the formation of legal institutions by armed movements and international actors in contexts of armed conflict, with a particular focus on Afghanistan, Syria and Mali. With Gilles Dorronsoro and Arthur Quesnay, he is the co-author of Civil War in Syria: Mobilisation and Competing Social Orders (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

It is a well-argued case and fascinating book on an interesting and not well-known country, but the reader may not agree with all the conclusions and arguments made.

• Introduction: A sociological approach to law in civil wars Part I: Legal Uncertainty 1: A revolution in the juridical field 2: The social upheavals of a war-torn society 3: Regime justice: Rubberstamping the balance of power 4: The US Army: Reinventing the tribe, circumventing the courts Part II: The Taliban Courts 5: A bureaucratic system 6: The dual membership of judges 7: The trials Part III: Producing a Social Order Through the Law 8: Judges as an instrument of centralization 9: Legitimation through law 10: The society project Conclusion: The internationalization of law in civil war

Adam Baczko is CNRS Research Associate Professor at the Centre for International Studies of Sciences Po. He holds a PhD from the EHESS and conducts field-based research on the formation of legal institutions by armed movements and international actors in contexts of armed conflict, with a particular focus on Afghanistan, Syria and Mali. With Gilles Dorronsoro and Arthur Quesnay, he is the co-author of Civil War in Syria: Mobilisation and Competing Social Orders (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

It is a well-argued case and fascinating book on an interesting and not well-known country, but the reader may not agree with all the conclusions and arguments made.

• Introduction: A sociological approach to law in civil wars Part I: Legal Uncertainty 1: A revolution in the juridical field 2: The social upheavals of a war-torn society 3: Regime justice: Rubberstamping the balance of power 4: The US Army: Reinventing the tribe, circumventing the courts Part II: The Taliban Courts 5: A bureaucratic system 6: The dual membership of judges 7: The trials Part III: Producing a Social Order Through the Law 8: Judges as an instrument of centralization 9: Legitimation through law 10: The society project Conclusion: The internationalization of law in civil war