| Description |
1 online resource |
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Introduction -- Colonialism and the rule of law -- Genealogical explorations : the rule of law as practice -- Lawless places and placeless law : Stephen, Sierra Leone and extraterritoriality -- Codification and the colonies: who's accusing whom? -- Macaulay to Malimath : punishment and the police in India -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
European colonial powers delivered a system of law to their possessions; this book examines the legal legacies from this practice that remain intact today. Despite the claims that the white man's burden included transfer of the rule of law to less-enlightened countries, the number of people who were involved in legal administration for the British Empire was small. In fact, the legal footprint of the British Empire was primarily made by one family. Sir James Stephen, known as Mr Mothercountry, oversaw the British Empire's colonial laws for 30 years. A committed abolitionist who believed that the rule of law could be deployed for the protection of the most dispossessed subjects of the Crown, he fought a losing battle for a more robust interpretation of the rule of law in the context of colonialism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Law -- Great Britain -- Colonies
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Rule of law -- Great Britain -- Colonies
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Law -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- English influences
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Law -- British colonies
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Great Britain.
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British Empire.
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Rule of law.
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Colonialism.
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Postcolonialism.
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Legal history.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190253004 |
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0190253002 |
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