@article{67ab53a91c0845dd8332170ce17056ba,
title = "Of Interactionality and Legal Universes: A Bottom-Up Approach to the Rule of Law in Armed Group Territory",
abstract = "Reviewing literature on rule of law, this article puts forward a {\textquoteleft}bottom-up{\textquoteright} approach of the rule of law that encourages an analysis of three aspects (i) the ability of the legal framework to confer the capacity of self-determination upon individuals (ii) the extent to which the legal framework is reciprocal/ interactional, in that it creates expectations between governing and governed and (iii) the contribution made by ordinary individuals in the form of participation with or contribution to communities of practice and law in everyday life. The paper then applies this framework to the law and rules in application in territory under the control of armed groups, considering individuals{\textquoteright} relationship with rules in these spaces and examining their different ways in which they may affect civilians{\textquoteright} lives.",
keywords = "armed groups, bottom-up approaches, communities of practice, everyday life, interactionality, rule of law",
author = "Katharine Fortin",
note = "Funding Information: I am very grateful to the individuals who have helped me think through some of the issues contained within this article and improve it. These include the two anonymous peer reviewers whose comments were invaluable, the co-editors of this volume (Julie Fraser, Brianne McGonigle Leyh and Antoine Buyse), the participants of the conference The Rule of Law from Below hosted by Utrecht University?s Montaigne Centre for the Rule of Law and Administration of Justice and the Netherlands Institution of Human Rights and participants in the interdisciplinary workshop on Rules and Laws in Protracted Conflict: Concurrence, Negotiation and Friction organised by scholars from Utrecht University?s Contesting Governance Platform, both of which took place in October 2020 in Utrecht, Helen Kinsella, Ezequiel Heffes and Ioana Cismas. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.36633/ulr.669",
language = "English",
volume = "17",
pages = "26--41",
journal = "Utrecht Law Review",
issn = "1871-515X",
publisher = "Igitur, Utrecht Publishing and Archiving Services",
number = "2",
}