Martin Chanock

Making of South African Legal Culture 1902-1936 (eBook, PDF)

Fear, Favour and Prejudice

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Produktbeschreibung

The development of the South African legal system in the early twentieth century was crucial to the establishment and maintenance of the systems which underpinned the racist state, including control of the population, the running of the economy, and the legitimization of the regime. Martin Chanock's highly illuminating and definitive perspective on that development examines all areas of the law: criminal law and criminology; the Roman-Dutch law; the State's African law; and land, labour and 'rule of law' questions. His revisionist analysis of the construction of South African legal culture illustrates the larger processes of legal colonization, while the consideration of the interaction between imported doctrine and legislative models with local contexts and approaches also provides a basis for understanding the re-fashioning of law under circumstances of post-colonialism and globalization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511031564
• Artikelnr.: 38184031

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.