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Dangers
Main Threat
Those who would re-impose a central government
and statutory law
Main arguments
Legislation is needed to:
Strengthen and unify customary law
infrastructure)
Make treaties with foreign government agencies
Road Building
Building roads and port facilitates
Turn coastline into major assets
Facilities on the 2 sides of the Horn- on the Indian
Ocean and the Gulf of Eden
Opportunity: inefficient seaport in Mombassa
Example: Jim Davidson & Michael van Notten
Freeport
CH. 15
Hong Kong Succes
Freeport-Clan
APPENDIX A
CASE LAW
APPENDIX B
WHAT IS KRITARCHY?
Definition
“Stateless” & based on customary law rather than
statutory law.
Is not extinct but highly developed juridical system
Looks to the future note the past
Example: Somalia
Rules of Law
Based on equal justice for all and natural law
Police, political are denied any power, privilege or
immunity, can’t use coercive monopoly.
No distinction b/w subjects and rulers
Freedom
Commitment to justice manifests in its political
system, which guarantees a free-market for the
enterprise of justice
Origin of the Term
Kritarchy: is a political system in which justice
(more exactly the judgment that seeks to determine
justice) is the ruling principle of first cause.
Has evolved
Colonial powers
submerged
Democracy