Book Launch: "Law, Society and Corruption: Lessons from the Central Asian Context"

• Follow the book presentation online via Zoom

The open-access book presents new socio-legal perspectives and insights on the social life of corruption and anticorruption in authoritarian regimes.

This book takes up the case of Uzbekistan—an authoritarian regime in Central Asia and one of the most corrupt countries in the world according to Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index—and examines the corruption that developed in a tightly closed authoritarian regime permeated by a large-scale shadow economy, a weak rule of law, and a collectivist legal culture. Building on socio-legal frameworks of legal compliance, living law and legal pluralism, the book's central argument is that corruption's roles, meanings, and logics are fluid, and depend on many structural variables, and contextual and situational factors.

This book will be of value to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of sociology of law, legal anthropology, and Central Asian studies, especially those with an interest in the intersection of law, society, and corruption in authoritarian regime contexts.

Read and download Law, Society and Corruption: Lessons from the Central Asian Context in the Lund University Research Portal.

External discussants

Timur Dadabaev, Professor of International Relations and the Director of the Special Program for Japanese and Eurasian Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Kobil Ruziev, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Business and Law, UWE Bristol