The word “law” is generally associated with the word “rules.” McInnes, Kerr, and Van Duzer provide a simple definition of law as “a rule that can be enforced by the courts.”2 Similarly, Yates defines law as “the body of rules that can be enforced by the courts or by other government agencies.”3 DuPlessis and O’Byrne define law as “a set of rules and principles intended to gu…
At the beginning of our own research careers, one over a quarter of a century ago and the other ten years ago, each of us had the good for- tune to work as part of a team with researchers more seasoned than we who showed us how to apply what we had learned as graduate students to our experiences in “the field.” For one of us (SC), “the field” was Thailand. For the other (EP), it was the…