Martin Chanock is Professor of Law and Legal Studies at La Trobe University, Victoria. His publications include Law, Custom and Social Order. The Colonial Experience in Malawi and Zambia (1985), and Unconsummated Union Britain, Rhodesia and South Africa 1900-1945 (1977).
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Part I. Puzzles, Paradigms and Problems: 1. Four stories
2. Legal culture, state making and colonialism
Part II. Law and Order: 3. Police and policing
4. Criminology
5. Prisons and penology
6. Criminal law
7. Criminalising political opposition
Part III. South African Common Law A: 8. Roman-Dutch law
9. Marriage and race
10. The legal profession
Part IV. South African Common Law B: 11. Creating the discourse: customary law and colonial rule in South Africa
12. After Union: the segregationist tide
13. The native appeal courts and customary law
14. Customary law, courts and code after 1927
Part V. Law and Government: 15. Land
16. Law and labour
17. The new province for law and order: struggles on the racial frontier
18. A rule of law
Part VI. Consideration: 19. Reconstructing the state: legal formalism, democracy and a post-colonial rule of law
Bibliography
Index
Index of legal cases cited.
