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The Grand Experiment: Law and Legal Culture in British Settler Societies
Hamar Foster (Ed.)
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Hardback. Reveals how local life and culture in selected colonies interacted with the rule of law that accompanied the British colonial project. This book presents an account of the 'incomplete implementation of the British constitution' in the colonies. It explores themes of legal translation, local understandings, and judicial biography. Editor(s): Foster, Hamar; Berger, Benjamin L.; Buck, Mr. A. R. Series Editor(s): Pue, W. Wesley. Series: Law and Society. Num Pages: 336 pages, 7 black & white photos, 5 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 1MB; LAM; LAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 34. Weight in Grams: 703.
The essays in this volume reflect the exciting new directions in which legal history in the settler colonies of the British Empire has developed. The contributors show how local life and culture in selected settlements influenced, and was influenced by, the ideology of the rule of law that accompanied the British colonial project. Exploring themes of legal translation, local understandings, judicial biography, and “law at the boundaries,” they examine the legal cultures of dominions in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand to provide a contextual and comparative account of the “incomplete implementation of the British constitution” in these colonies.
The essays in this volume reflect the exciting new directions in which legal history in the settler colonies of the British Empire has developed. The contributors show how local life and culture in selected settlements influenced, and was influenced by, the ideology of the rule of law that accompanied the British colonial project. Exploring themes of legal translation, local understandings, judicial biography, and “law at the boundaries,” they examine the legal cultures of dominions in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand to provide a contextual and comparative account of the “incomplete implementation of the British constitution” in these colonies.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Series
Law and Society
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774814911
SKU
V9780774814911
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About Hamar Foster (Ed.)
Hamar Foster is a professor of law at the University of Victoria. Benjamin L. Berger an assistant professor of law at the University of Victoria. A.R. Buck is a professor of law and Co-Director of the Centre for Comparative Law, History and Governance at Macquarie University, Australia. Contributors: Simon Bronitt, Lyndsay M. Campbell, Jeremy Finn, Philip Girard, Ian Holloway, Bruce ... Read more
Reviews for The Grand Experiment: Law and Legal Culture in British Settler Societies
"This collection of essays by Canada's and Australasia's most accomplished legal historians is a "must" for academic libraries and those who share these scholars' interest in the legal culture of the British colonial world. - Peter Karsten, author of Between Law and Custom: "High" and "Low" Legal Cultures in the Lands of the British Diaspora, 1600-1900.