Panel 130: New Directions in East African Legal History (Brett Shadle)
Panel Organiser: Brett Shadle
We will analyze how legal institutions, legislation, and key debates about law and order have contributed to or challenged the development of state power in East Africa. This will serve to highlight as yet uninterrogated networks of legal knowledge and patterns of legal practice and offer further directions in research.
Accepted Abstracts
Struggle for the Courts: Administrators, Settlers, Judges, and the Law in Early Colonial Kenya
He
refused to swear an oath: Courts, honor and gender in post-emancipation Pemba, East Africa
British kadhis and Muslim judges: Role reversal, irreconcilable differences and legal innovation in
Zanzibar's judiciary, 1890-1963
On
the Bench:
The
First Tanzanian High Court Judges, c. 1964-1971
Despotisme, patronage et justice
au royaume du Buganda au XIXe siècle
Individual Initiative
or Collective Culpability? The Komen arap Chelal Witch-Killings in 1930s
Kenya
Towards a Social
History of Policing in Colonial Kenya
The Extreme Penalty
of the Law': Capital Punishment as an Aspect of State Power in Colonial
Nyasaland, c.1900-47
