Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law Stanford University


CDDRL Courses


Law and Colonialism in Africa

Course number(s): WIN0910--HISTORY245G/348D
Offered Winter quarter in the 2009-2010 academic year

Instructors
Richard Roberts - Stanford University

Colloquium: Law in colonial Africa provides an opportunity to examine the meanings of social, cultural, and economic change in the anthropological, legal, and historical approaches. Court cases as a new frontier for the social history of Africa. Topics: meanings of conflicts over marriage, divorce, inheritance, property, and authority.

Thu 3:15-6:05pm, Room: 200-015

DB-SocSci

Level
Undergraduate

Units
4-5

Department
History Department
School of Humanities and Sciences