Legal Histories of Empire

Lyndsay Campbell is Professor in the Faculty of Law and Department of History, University of Calgary, Canada.Shaunnagh Dorsett is Distinguished Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

• 1. Navigating Legalities: Legal Histories of Empires Lyndsay Campbell and Shaunnagh Dorsett Part 1: Legalities 2. Gerald of Wales, John Davies, and the Laws of the Irish in an English Colonial Perspective Craig Lyons 3. Constituting a Colonial Crisis: Kielley v. Carson, St. John’s, 1838-43 Lyndsay Campbell 4. Recrafting Subjecthood through Exceptional Laws in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire Amanda Nettelbeck 5. Making Empire: Writing the 1833 Ceylon Charter of Justice and Curial Reform in the British Empire Shaunnagh Dorsett Part 2: Negotiating Legalities 6. Resisting and Extending Empire: How the Acadian People Shaped British and French Imperial Rule Through the Strategic Use of Law Robert Hamilton 7. Arbitration and Empire: The Anti-Adjudicatory State in Bengal and British America, 1763–1775 Christian R. Burset 8. Legally Interconnecting Empires in the Americas: The Circulation of ‘Foreign’ Law Books in Québec and Louisiana from the 17th to the Early 19th Century Serge Dauchy 9. Protestant State, Catholic Subjects: Religion, Law and Caste in Early Colonial Madras Aparna Balachandran 10. Goomany Naik: Fragments of A ‘Non-Traditional’ Legal Biography Nishant Gokhale Part 3: Subverting Empire: Legalities and Illegalities 11. Creative Friction, Legal Pluralism and the Eighteenth-Century Smuggling Economy in the Channel Islands David Chan Smith 12. The ‘Price’ of War: The Criminalization and Punishment of Profiteers in Southern Nigeria during World War II Yolanda Chinelo Osondu 13. Anxieties of Whiteness: Evidence, Race, and Emotions in the (Non-)Prosecution of the “Malayan ‘Sexual Perversion’ Cases,” 1938-1940 Jack Jin Gary Lee 14. Merchant Seafarers on British Ships: Lascars, Labour, Law and Empire in the Early 20th Century Diane Kirkby