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The “Gift” of Martial Law: Military Tribunals in Commonwealth Africa, 1967-1990

African Legal History Seminar
  • Date: May 17, 2022
  • Time: 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Dr. Samuel Fury Childs Daly (Duke University)
  • Location: Videokonferenz
  • Room: For further information please contact the organisers.
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'Studying Land and Colonialism in Mozambique – Evidence from the region of Manica and Sofala under the rule of the Mozambique Company, c.1890s-c.1940s'

African Legal History Seminar
  • Date: Mar 16, 2022
  • Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Barbara Direito
  • (NOVA University, Lisbon)
  • Location: video conference
  • Room: For further information please contact the organisers
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'An end to their days': The Use and Perceptions of the Red Water Ordeal in Early Sierra Leone

African Legal History Seminar
  • Date: Feb 15, 2022
  • Time: 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Tim Soriano
  • (University of Illinois and Newberry Library Fellow)
  • Location: video conference
  • Room: For further information please contact the organisers
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Truncated Allegiances? Chiefly Jurisdiction and Colonial Law on the Ghana-Togo Borderlands

African Legal History Seminar
  • Date: Jan 18, 2022
  • Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Edem Adotey
  • (University of Ghana)
  • Location: video conference
  • Room: For further information please contact the organisers
  • Host: Joint initiative of the Max Planck Research Group 'Legal Connectivities and Colonial Cultures in Africa' and the project 'Global Legal History on the Ground'
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'Mucanos is the term given here in Portuguese to crimes of any degree': exploratory notes on Luso-African legal experiences in nineteenth-century West Central Africa

African Legal History Seminar
  • Date: Dec 13, 2021
  • Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Rita Amaral
  • (University of the Free State)
  • Location: video conference
  • Room: For further information please contact the organisers
  • Host: A joint iniative of the Max Planck Research Group 'Legal Connectivities and Colonial Cultures in Africa' and the project 'Global Legal History on the Ground'.
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