Description:
The breadth of research and wealth of fascinating detail which this volume offers, using a wide array of resources hitherto inaccessible in English, make it a unique and important scholarly book.
Brief description: Jigjid Boldbaatar (Sc.D) is a Member of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences (Academician) and Professor of History at the National University of Mongolia and Shihihutug University; he was a former member of the Constitutional Court of Mongolia and a member of Parliament from 1992 to 1996.
Review Quotes:
"A detailed, but concise description of the governmental structure of Mongolia as developed over centuries, demonstrating its development and decline as well as its re-establishment. During this process, Mongolia faced some of the same problems western European States did, such as the problem of self-identification and the forming of a people of the State (Staatsvolk), the legitimacy of its governmental system and a legal system matching its cultural particularities. The responses to these challenges differed in each era and thus illustrate the various models in developing a Statehood".
Professor (Em.) Rüdiger Wolfrum, Professor of Comparative National Public Law and International Public Law at the University of Heidelberg, Faculty of Law
"Transforming an unorganised system of nomadic tribes into a state is the nucleus of this very interesting book.....Nomadic tribes are social systems in flux and it is therefore of interest to observe how internal and external order can be promoted through the rule of law.....This encyclopaedic volume on the development of written law, born out of customs and customary law, gives us a rare insight into opportunities to create order out of disorder....It transcends the Mongol State and Law in modern times into a Mongol Metaphor and teaches us how to become well-organised in a volatile world order."
Professor Paul Meerts, formerly Director of The Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael, The Hague.