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Session 5: Colonial Law’s Personal Status
Central issues of private international law involve jurisdiction over persons and land, and the law applicable to each of these categories. If we replace these issues within a colonial setting, and if we apply gender as a category of social history, dramatic new questions arise.
Published onNov 12, 2021
Session 5: Colonial Law’s Personal Status
Recommended readings:
For seminar materials, see the Globinar Cloud. Please note that access is restricted to registered participants only.
Judith Surkis (2019), “Making the ‘Muslim Family’” in Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930.
Kathleen Lennon (2015), Imagination and the Imaginary (extracts).
Zakes Mda (2013), The Sculptors of Mapungubwe (extracts).
