Contents Abbreviations The Relevance of Real Legal Certainty – An Introduction B. Oomen and A. Bedner Getting Real: Considering Legal Certainty from Below 1 Addressing Adverse Formalisation: The Land Question in Outer Island Indonesia J.F. McCarthy, K. Robinson, and A. Dhiaulhaq 2 Can Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) Create Legal Certainty for Hunter-Gatherers? G.A. Persoon and T. Minter 3 The Constitutional Dimensions of Decentralisation and Local Self-Government in Asia A. Harding 4 Indeterminacy, Uncertainty, and Insecurity K. von Benda-Beckmann Supporting the State: The Relevance of Institution Building 5 The Uncertain Future of Legal Reforms in China’s New Era J. Chen 6 The Role of Local Bureaucrats in the Law-making Process R. Simarmata 7 Law’s Catch-22: Understanding Legal Failure Spatially B. van Rooij 8 Missions Impossible to Try Rwandan Genocide Suspects? N. Huls Other Actors: Widening the Scope 9 Traditional Leadership and Customary Law in Capitalist Liberal Democracies in Africa J.M. Ubink 10 Capacity Development of Civil Society in a Fragile Context: Dutch Donor Interventions in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo C. Jacobs 11 Inheritance Rights and Gender Justice in Contemporary Indonesia S. Irianto 12 The Role of Sharia in Lawmaking: The Case of Libya S. Ibrahim References List of Contributors