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This volume examines power-sharing agreements, their legitimacy and their compatibility with human rights law. Providing a clear, accessible introduction to the

Bentham's law -- The possibility and probability of noncoercive law -- In search of the puzzled man -- Do people obey the law? -- Are officials above the law? -

A signal feature of legal and political institutions is that they exercise coercive power. The essays in this volume examine institutional coercion with the aim