ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book presents an image of law as a common experience, animated by a dialectic of normativity, and a portrait of that dialectic as it plays out in Liberia. In the case of the rule of law God has also provided the last instance and ultimate authority from time to time. The women walking together appear as ghosts, spectres of the recent wars that tore Liberia apart. As the prisoners in Liberia's Central Prison testify, the living dead are never mere bodies but always also subjects capable of critical acts of articulation, no matter how well an institution succeeds in containing their expression. On the other hand, as BrianTamanaha also observes, the rule of law cannot be separated from the rule of humans.
