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Legal Histories of the British Empire Conference
sponsored by National University of Singapore Faculty of Law and the University of Victoria's Faculty of Law and Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives

Law, Spaces, Cultures & Empire: Engagements & Legacies

5–7 July, 2012 Singapore

 

Presenters, Abstracts and Papers

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Maartje Abbenhuis, Senior Lecturer, History, University of Auckland, m.abbenhuis@auckland.ac.nz
A Global Thalassocracy: Neutrality, War and the British Empire, 1856–1914  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Jenny Anderson, Ph.D. Candidate, Law, University of Melbourne, JennyA@vla.vic.gov.au
Children’s Courts and Empire Building: Australia and Britain, 1890–1910  »  Abstract  /  Paper

 


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Constance Backhouse, Professor, Law, University of Ottawa, Constance.Backhouse@uOttawa.ca
Paths Taken and Paths Not Taken: Career Opportunities for Early Francophone Women Lawyers in Quebec, Canada  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Aparna Balachandran, Assistant Professor, History, University of Delhi, aparna_balachandran@yahoo.com
Incorporated Subjects: Outcaste Tamils in Company Madras  »  Abstract  /  Paper

David Bell, Professor, Law/History, University of New Brunswick, dbell@unb.ca
Law-making for an “Asylum of Loyalty”: New Brunswick, 1784–86  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Deborah Bernstein, Professor, Sociology and Anthropology, University of Haifa, bernstein.deborahs@gmail.com
Multiple Voices and the Force of Custom in the Trial of Family Honour Killings in Mandate Palestine  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Binyamin Blum, Faculty Member, Law, Hebrew University, binyamin.blum@mail.huji.ac.il
The CSI Effect in Mandate Palestine: Forensic Technology, Surveillance and Empire  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Richard Boast, Professor, Law, Victoria University of Wellington, Richard.Boast@vuw.ac.nz
Doctrine and History in the Native Land Court  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Bridget Brereton, Professor Emerita, History, University of the West Indies, Trinidad, bridgetm@tstt.net.tt
A Judicial Maverick: John Gorrie at Large in the Victorian Empire  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Blake Brown, Associate Professor, History, St. Mary’s University, Halifax, blake.brown@smu.ca
“The Harshness and Injustice of the Common Law Rule … has Frequently been Commented Upon”: Debating Tort Law in Canada, 1900–1950  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Antoinette Burton, Professor, History, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, aburton@illinois.edu
Discussant, Travelling Legacies Panel  »  Abstract  /  Paper

 


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Lyndsay Campbell, Assistant Professor, Law/Legal Studies, University of Calgary, lyndsay@iii.ca
Race, Law, and the Early Canadian State  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Niranjan Casinader, Head of Humanities, Loyola College, Melbourne, Australia / PhD Graduand, University of Melbourne, ncasinader@bigpond.com
The Kandyan Convention: Consolidating the British Empire in Colonial Ceylon  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Guy Charlton, Senior Lecturer, Law, Auckland University of Technology, guyccharlton@yahoo.com
Aboriginal Rights and Political Conflict: The Recognition of Aboriginal Common Law and Treaty Rights in the Settler Colonies of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Nandini Chatterjee, Lecturer, History, University of Plymouth, nandini.chatterjee@plymouth.ac.uk
Cultural Expertise and Social Vision: Justice Amir Ali’s Interpretation of Indian Tradition  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Stephanie Po-yin Chung, Professor, History, Hong Kong Baptist University, s53096@hkbu.edu.hk
Understanding “Chinese Customs”: the Irish Judges and the Sinchew Disputes in the Straits Settlements, 1830s–1870s  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Guillemette Crouzet, Ph.D. Candidate, History, Sorbonne, Paris, guillemettecrouzet@yahoo.fr
“A Slave Trade Jurisdiction”: Attempt Against the Slave Trade and the Making of a Space of Rights in the Arabo-Persian Gulf, the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea (1820–1900)  »  Abstract  /  Paper

 


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Orna Alyagon Darr, Lecturer, Law, Carmel Academic Center, orna_a@carmel.ac.il
Proving Rape in Mandate Palestine: Two Cases of Legal and Cultural Struggle  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Rohit De, Ph.D. Candidate, History, Princeton University, de.rohit@gmail.com
The Imperial Journeys of Constitutional Law  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Shaunnagh Dorsett, Associate Professor, Law, University of Technology, Sydney, Shaunnagh.Dorsett@uts.edu.au
Networks, Trajectories and Comparative Legal History Burton’s Draft 1838 Act for the Amelioration of the Aboriginal Natives  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Juliette G. Duara, Ph.D. Candidate, Law, National University of Singapore, juliette.duara@gmail.com
Women’s Inheritance Rights under the British in India, Hong Kong and Singapore  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Ian Duncanson, Adjunct Associate Professor, Law, Griffith University, ian.duncanson1@bigpond.com
Two Empires, Supremacy and Sovereignty  »  Abstract  /  Paper

 


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Tim Fadgen, Ph.D. Candidate, Law, University of Auckland, tpfadgen@gmail.com
A Critical Review of Colonial and Post-Colonial Mental Health Law Transfer in the Antipodes: Samoa’s Mental Health Legacy  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Jeremy Finn, Professor, Law, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, jeremy.finn@canterbury.ac.nz
Spreading the Word: Exploring the Transmission of Legal Information Through the British Empire  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Georgina Fitzpatrick, Research Fellow, Law, University of Melbourne, gjf@unimelb.edu.au
Cutting the Apron Strings? Australian and British War Crimes Trials at Singapore [and Hong Kong], 1946–48  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Lisa Ford, Senior Lecturer, History, University of New South Wales, l.ford@unsw.edu.au
Protected Subjects: Slaves and Indigenous People under the Protectors  »  Abstract  /  Paper

 


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Kennedy Gastorn, Lecturer, Law, University of Dar-es-Salaam, kennedy@udsm.ac.tz
The Dynamics of Continuity and Change of British Colonial Legacy in Land Laws of Tanzania  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Shelley Gavigan, Associate Professor, Law, Osgoode Hall, York University, sgavigan@osgoode.yorku.ca
Finding Indigenous Women and Girls in Criminal Law on the Nineteenth Century Canadian Plains  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Subhasree Ghosh, Independent Scholar, Kolkata, subhasrig@gmail.com
Ideology and Law-Making: British India in the Nineteenth Century  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Dale Gibson, Professor Emeritus, Law, University of Manitoba, giblaw@shaw.ca
Company Justice on the British North American Plains 1835–1870  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Michael Gilsenan, Professor, Anthropology, New York University, michael.gilsenan@nyu.edu
Translating Colonial Fortunes: Dilemmas of Inheritance in Muslim and English Laws Across a Nineteenth Century Diaspora  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Philip Girard Professor, Law/History, Dalhousie University, Philip.Girard@Dal.Ca
Empires, Law, and First Nations in Northern North America, 1500–1760  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Lee Godden, Professor, Law, University of Melbourne, lcgodden@unimelb.edu.au
Discussant: The Kandyan Convention: Consolidating the British Empire in Colonial Ceylon  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Allison Mileo Gorsuch, Ph.D. Candidate, History, Yale University, allison.gorsuch@yale.edu
Legacies of Empires: Race and Labor Contracts in the Upper Mississippi River Valley, 1808–1837  »  Abstract  /  Paper

 


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Fiona Hanlon, Serenus Thinking, Australia, fiona@serenusthinking.com.au
From Ex Patriot Barrister to Cabinet Minister: An Empirical Analysis of the Evolution of the Office of Attorney General in Australia – 1823–2000  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Andrew Harding, Professor, Law, National University of Singapore, lawajh@nus.edu.sg
The Nadra Case: Colonialism, Religion and Legal Conflict in 1950s Singapore  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Douglas C. Harris, Professor, Law, University of British Columbia, harris@law.ubc.ca
Property and Sovereignty: An Indian Reserve in a Canadian City  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Ron Harris, Professor, Law, Tel Aviv University, harrisr@post.tau.ac.il
Legislation and Case Law in the Transplantation of British Company Law in Post-Ottoman Palestine  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Badi Hasisi, (will not be in attendance), Fellow, Criminology/Law, Hebrew University, hasisi@mscc.huji.ac.il
Multiple Voices and the Force of Custom in the Trial of Family Honour Killings in Mandate Palestine  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Adam S. Hofri-Winogradow, Assistant Professor, Law, Hebrew University, hofri@mscc.huji.ac.il
Zionist Settlers and the English Private Trust in Mandate Palestine  »  Abstract  »  Paper

Ann P. Hunter, Assistant Professor, Indigenous Studies, University of Western Australia, ann.hunter@uwa.edu.au
Who Decides? Whose Testimony? The Role, Composition and Use of Grand Juries in British Legal Cultures: Singapore and Australia in the Nineteenth Century  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Nik Haslinda bt Nik Hussain, Senior Lecturer, Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia, nlinda@usm.my
Man and Land: The Fate of Customary Land Laws During the Light Administration in Penang, 1786–1794  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Iza Hussin, Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of Chicago, hussin@post.harvard.edu
Two Trajectories of Law on Islam in the British Empire  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Stacey Hynd, Lecturer, History, University of Exeter, S.Hynd@exeter.ac.uk
“The Laws of the Land”: The Gold Coast Aborigines’ Rights Protection Society and Opposition to the Crown Lands Bill, 1897–1902  »  Abstract  /  Paper

 


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Bonny Ibhawoh, Associate Professor, History, McMaster University, ibhawoh@mcmaster.ca
To Sit or not to Sit: The Debate over the Inclusion of Indigenous Judges in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council  »  Abstract  /  Paper

 


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James Jaffe, Professor, History, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, jaffej@uww.edu
Popular Tribunals and British Justice in Western India, 1800–1850  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Hudson Janisch, Professor Emeritus, Law, University of Toronto, hjanisch@uvic.ca
Laws on the Island of St Helena under the English East India Company, 1659–1834  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Miranda Johnson, Australian Council Research Fellow, History, University of Sydney, cjohnson33@wisc.edu
Indigenous Rights at the End of Empire  »  Abstract  /  Paper

 


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Stephen L. Keck, Associate Professor, Arts and Science, American University of Sharjah, skeck@aus.edu
Defining the Dacoits: Towards a Legal History of Colonial Burma  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Alexandre (Sandy) Kedar, Senior Lecturer, Law, Haifa University, sandy@law.haifa.ac.il
The Enduring Legal Legacy of the British Empire: The British, Indian and Pakistani sources of the Israeli Absentee Property Act  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Mary Kilcline Cody, Lecturer, Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, mary.kilcline.cody@anu.edu.au
White Justice: The Trial of Mrs Proudlock  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Riyad S. Koya, Ph.D. Candidate, History, University of California at Berkeley, skoya2@berkeley.edu
Indian Diaspora and Personal Law: From Imperial to National Citizenship  »  Abstract  /  Paper

 


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Martin Lau, Reader, Law, SOAS, University of London, martinlau@mac.com
The Law of Coup d’etat: Sir Ivor Jennings’ Contribution to the Break-Up of Pakistan’s first Constitutional Machinery  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Ian Leader-Elliott, Emeritus Fellow, Law, University of Adelaide, ian.leaderelliott@adelaide.edu.au
Macaulay’s Penal Code, Adam Smith and the Jurisprudence of Resentment  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Eve Lester, Ph.D. Candidate, Law, University of Melbourne, evelester@bigpond.com
Finding the Figure of the foreigner in (Migration) Law: Legacies of Empire  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Sarah Levine-Gronningsater, Ph.D. Candidate, History, University of Chicago, sarahlg@uchicago.edu
The Legacies of British Colonial Law on Emancipation, Labor, and Freedom in New York State  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Assaf Likhovski, Professor, Law, Tel Aviv University, likhovsk@post.tau.ac.il
Two Models of Taxation and Tax “Law” in 1940s Palestine  »  Abstract  /  Paper

 


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Catharine MacMillan, Reader, Queen Mary College, University of London, c.a.macmillan@qmul.ac.uk
Judah Benjamin and the Law of Empire  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Mara Malagodi, Teaching Fellow, Law, SOAS, University of London, mm112@soas.ac.uk
Constitutionalising Democracy? Sir Ivor Jennings in Nepal (28 March–24 April 1958)  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Bindu Menon Mannil, Assistant Professor, Journalism, Delhi University, binmenen@gmail.com
This Curious Commodity Called Cinematograph” – Law and the Cinematograph Exhibitions in South India (1926–27)  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Avital Margalit, Lecturer, Law, Sapir College of Law, tali1807@gmail.com
Co-operative Societies in Mandatory Palestine: Legal and Cultural Transplantation  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Renisa Mawani, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of British Columbia, renisa@mail.ubc.ca
Mobilities of Law in South Asian Migration: Race, Indigeneity, and Imperial Citizenship, 1914  »  Abstract  /  Paper

David McCallum, Associate Professor, Social Sciences and Psychology, Victoria University, Melbourne, David.McCallum@vu.edu.au
Liberal Governance and Knowing the Australian Aborigine  »  Abstract  /  Paper

John McLaren, Professor Emeritus, Law, University of Victoria, jmclaren@uvic.ca
Chasing the Chameleon: The Rule of Law in the British Empire  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Rob McQueen, Associate Professor, Law, Monash University, robert.mcqueen@law.monash.edu.au
Discussant: Ordering the Colonial Economy Panel  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Sue Milne, Senior Lecturer, Law, University of South Australia, Sue.Milne@unisa.edu.au
The Capital Case of Sarah McGregor and Mary Maloney in New South Wales in 1834: “Justice is Due Even to Them”  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Patricia Hagler Minter, Associate Professor, History, Western Kentucky University, patricia.minter@wku.edu
The Evolution of “the State of Slavery”: Somerset, The Slave Grace, and the Rise of Anti-Slavery Constitutionalism in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Takashi Miyamoto, Ph.D. Candidate, History, University of Tokyo, mt@project-scriptorium.com
Evolution of a Progressive Stage System in Prisons of the North Western Provinces of India  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Thomas Mohr, Lecturer, Law, University College Dublin, thomas.mohr@ucd.ie
The Imperial Conference in the History of the British Empire  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Peter Moore, Independent Scholar, Katoomba, New South Wales, plm@crossingpress.com.au
Lawyers of the Empire; or, Empire lawyers? Reflections on a South Australian Sample up to 1900  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Michel Morin, Professor, Law, University of Montreal, michel.morin.3@umontreal.ca
Becoming a British Subject in a French-Speaking Colony – Quebec, 1764–1775  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Grant Morris, Senior Lecturer, Law, Victoria University, Wellington, Grant.Morris@vuw.ac.nz
How and Why Did We Get to Yes? Towards a History of Alternative Dispute Resolution in New Zealand  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Soumen Mukherjee, Research Associate, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, soumenmukherjee26@googlemail.com
Social Welfare and Religious Authority in the Ismaili Imagination: The Lineages of a Cluster of Ideas and Actions in Our Times  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Zülâl Muslu, the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History; Ph.D. Candidate, Law, Paris Ouest La Defence University, muslu@rg.mpg.de
A Judiciary Tool of a “Hypo-colony”: The Example of the Ottoman Mixed Commercial Courts in the Late 19th Century  »  Abstract  /  Paper

 


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Sugata Nandi, Assistant Professor, History, West Bengal State University, Kolkata, sugatahistorian@gmail.com
Inventing Extraordinary Criminality: A Study of Criminalization by the Calcutta Goondas Act  »  Abstract  /  Paper

 


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John Orth, Professor, Law, University of North Carolina, jvorth@email.unc.edu
The Common Law in North Carolina  »  Abstract  /  Paper

 


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Pooja Parmar, Ph.D. Candidate, Law, University of British Columbia, poojaparmar7@gmail.com
Adivasi Land Claims and the Legalities of “Paper Owners” in Kerala  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Gail Pearson, Professor, Business, University of Sydney, gail.pearson@sydney.edu.au
A Single Site for Modernising Nineteenth Century Law: India and the UK  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Stefan Petrow, Associate Professor, History, University of Tasmania, Stefan.Petrow@utas.edu.au
“Sharp Practicing Gentry”: Lawyers in Van Diemen’s Land 1825 to 1855  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Jim Phillips, Professor, Law/History, University of Toronto, j.phillips@utoronto.ca
The British North American Judiciary, 1754–1867  »  Abstract  /  Paper

David Plater, Lecturer, Law, University of South Australia, David.Plater@unisa.edu.au
The Capital Case of Sarah McGregor and Mary Maloney in New South Wales in 1834: “Justice is Due Even to Them”  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Peter Prince, Ph.D. Candidate, Law, Australian National University, peter.prince@law.anu.edu.au
“You Can Never Make a Britisher of a Chinaman”: Misunderstanding, Misuse and Manipulation of the Term “Alien” in Australian Law and History  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Janna Promislow, Assistant Professor, Law, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, jpromislow@tru.ca
Empire and Honour of the Crown  »  Abstract  /  Paper

 


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Dana Rabin, Associate Professor, History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, drabin@illinois.edu
Empire on Trial: Slavery, Villeinage and Law in Imperial Britain  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Victor V. Ramraj, Associate Professor, Law, National University of Singapore, lawvvr@nus.edu.sg
The Fall and Rise of Company Rule and the Future of State Law  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Madurika Rasaratnam, Ph.D. Candidate, Government, London School of Economics, madura41@googlemail.com
Power and Resistance: the Perverse Politics of Colonial Constitutions, Anti Colonial Nationalism and Post Colonial State Formation  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Gregory Rawlings, Lecturer, Anthropology & Archaeology, University of Otago, greg.rawlings@otago.ac.nz
Protected Persons, Protected States and Citizenship: British Nationality Law and Indigenous Statelessness in Vanuatu (New Hebrides), 1906–1980  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Adrien Rodd, Research Fellow, Languages and International Studies, University of Versailles-Saint Quentin-en-Yveslines, adrien.rodd@uvsq.fr
A “Foreign Flower”? The British Legal Heritage in the Pacific  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Orit Rozin, Senior Lecturer, Jewish History, Tel-Aviv University, OritRozin@hotmail.com
Israel’s Age of Marriage Law: Memory, Belonging and Longing  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Thomas Rüfner, Professor, Law, University of Trier, ruefner@uni-trier.de
“Chinese Law” in the Colonial Courts of Hong Kong and Kiautschou  »  Abstract  /  Paper

 


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Benjamin B. Saunders, Research Fellow, Law, University of Melbourne, b.saunders@unimelb.edu.au
The Framers of the Australian Constitution on Oppositions  »  Abstract  /  Paper

David Schorr, Senior Lecturer, Law, Tel Aviv University, dschorr@tau.ac.il
The Role of the Society for Comparative Legislation in Imperial and Colonial Law Making  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Mohammad Shahabuddin, Assistant Professor and Chair, Law and Justice, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, shahab_elcop@yahoo.com
Historicizing “Law” as a Language of Civilization and Identity Construction  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Russell Smandych, Professor, Sociology, University of Manitoba, russell_smandych@umanitoba.ca
Settler Colonialism and its Legacies in Australia and Western Canada  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Charlotte Smith, Senior Lecturer, Law, University of Reading, c.l.smith@reading.ac.uk
Constructing Authority in Questions of Ecclesiastical Law: the Experience of the Church of England at Home and Abroad  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Carolyn Strange, Senior Fellow and Graduate Director, History, Australian National University, carolyn.strange@anu.edu.au
Pardoning in the Empire State: Colonial Legacies in Republican Discretionary Justice, New York, 1777–1846  »  Abstract  /  Paper

John Strawson, Reader, Law, University of East London, J.Strawson@uel.ac.uk
Translating the Hedaya: Colonial Foundations of Islamic Law  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Matthew Stubbs, Lecturer, Law, University of Adelaide, matthew.stubbs@adelaide.edu.au
The Impact of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 (Eng) upon the Australian Colonies  »  Abstract  /  Paper

 


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Carol Tan, Senior Lecturer, Law, SOAS, University of London, ct9@soas.ac.uk
Man and Land: The Fate of Customary Land Laws During the Light Administration in Penanag  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Greg Taylor, Associate Professor, Law, Monash University, greg.taylor@monash.edu
Macaulay’s Code: Reception by Contemporaries and Near Contemporaries  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Christopher Tomlins, Professor, Law, University of California Irvine, ctomlins@law.uci.edu
Freedom Bound, after Two Years: Intention, Reception, Revision, Contribution  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Mark Toufayan, Lecturer, Law, University of Ottawa; Ph.D. Candidate, Law, York University, Mark.Toufayan@uOttawa.ca
When British Justice (in African Colonies) Points TwoWays: On Dualism, Hybridity, and the Genealogy of Juridical Negritude in Taslim Olawale Elias  »  Abstract  /  Paper

 


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W.A.M. (Mieke) van der Linden, Ph.D. Candidate, Law, Tilburg University, w.a.m.vdrlinden@uvt.nl
New Imperialism on the African Continent: Territorial Acquisition by Illegal Cession?  »  Abstract  /  Paper

 


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Marian Walker, Research Associate, History and Classics, University of Tasmania, Marian.Walker@utas.edu.au
“Saving Appleland”: The Tasmanian Navigation Act Dispute 1900–1935  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Damen Ward, Crown Counsel, Crown Law Office, Wellington, New Zealand, Damen.Ward@crownlaw.govt.nz
Territory, Jurisdiction and Emergency. Colonial governance and the New Zealand Native Offenders Bill 1856–60: “A Bill to Repeal the British Constitution”  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Martin J. Wiener, Professor, History, Rice University, wiener@rice.edu
Common Issues in the New Legal Histories of the British Empire  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Roshan de Silva Wijeyeratne, Lecturer, Law, Griffith University, r.desilva@griffith.edu.au
The Mandala State in Pre-British Sri Lanka: The Cosmographical Terrain of Contested Sovereignty in the Theravada Buddhism Tradition  »  Abstract  /  Paper

David V. Williams, Professor, Law, University of Auckland, dv.williams@auckland.ac.nz
The “Invention of Tradition” and Colonial Rule in Tanganyika  »  Abstract  /  Paper

Barry Wright, Professor, Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University, Barry_Wright@carleton.ca
Macaulay, the India Penal Code and Labour in the British Empire  »  Abstract  /  Paper

 


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Yu Xiuling, Ph.D. Candidate, Law, SOAS, University of London, laoniqiu@hotmail.com
The “Rule of Law” and the Marginalisation of Chinese Medicine: Looking Again as the Legal Status of Chinese Medicine in Colonial Hong Kong  »  Abstract  /  Paper

 


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Fadzilah Yahaya, Ph.D. Candidate, History, Princeton University, fadzilah.yahaya@gmail.com
The Gorski-Alsagoff Case in Singapore in 1890  »  Abstract  /  Paper

 



Discussants/Commentators

Antoinette Burton, Professor, History, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, aburton@illinois.edu

Lee Godden, Professor, Law, University of Melbourne, lcgodden@unimelb.edu.au

Rob McQueen, Associate Professor, Law, Monash University, robert.mcqueen@law.monash.edu.au

 

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