| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Reinterpreting chaos as diversity: an alternative legal approach from the Global South -- PART I Cultural dynamics -- 1 Criminalizing adultery in colonial India: constructing the wife vs. the "other" in Islamic family law -- 2 "First world problems" in the "third world"? LGBT rights in Singapore -- 3 Privacy in public spaces: the transformative potential of Navtej Johar v. Union of India -- 4 Gambling with criminal law: the legal paradox of "jogo do bicho" (animal lottery) criminalization in Brazil -- PART II Political tensions -- 5 (Cr)immigration in the Dominican Republic? Decolonizing the human rights of vulnerable Haitian migrants -- 6 Cosmologies of federal criminal procedural reform: democratizing and humanizing criminal justice in Argentina -- 7 Of punishment, protest, and press conferences: contentious politics amid despotic decision in contemporary Burmese courtrooms -- PART III Institutional practices -- 8 The politics of judicial actors in the Philippines's "war on drugs" -- 9 Arresting a due process revolution: the reform of Indonesia's code of criminal procedure and the persistence of history -- 10 Sacrificing justice for efficiency? Examining premature dismissal rates in Peruvian corruption cases -- 11 Sexual crimes and transitional justice before courts in Brazil: accountability for crimes against humanity -- Conclusion -- Seeking commonalities from across the South -- Index.
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