The Making of South African Legal Culture 1902-1936: Fear, Favour and Prejudice

Martin Chanock's definitive perspective on the development of South Africa's legal system in the early twentieth century examines all areas of the law: criminal law and criminology; the Roman-Dutch law; the State's African law; Land, Labour and Rule of Law questions. His revisionist analysis of the 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 refashioning of law under circumstances of postcolonialism and globalization.

Author: Martin Chanock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 02/12/2007
Pages: 588
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.88lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.31d
ISBN: 9780521032971

About the Author
Chanock, Martin: - 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).

This title is not returnable