Colonial emergency law institutionalized its own failure to keep the rule of law

Evidence

Through emergency, colonial law provided for its own failure, a practice born out of the need to set up a political system that both maintained the rule of law and was able to respond to the exigencies of the colonial situation, one that was rife with ‘dissent’ and ‘disobedience.’ — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 50

Categorization

• FICTION: A legal system designed to fail at its own stated principles while claiming to uphold them is a strong engine for an Achebe-style novel of colonial contradiction.