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21 Oct 2010, 7:41 pm by Rohit De
In her recent article in Gender and History, Kolsky persuasively challenges the narrative of British claims of legal reform that aimed at 'saving Indian women' through the analysis of rape law which "concludes that the modernisation of law and the development of a new medico-legal understanding of rape introduced evidentiary standards that placed a heavy burden on Indian women seeking judicial remedy in colonial courts. [read post]
9 May 2022, 12:00 am by Lawrence Solum
Is there a basic incompatibility of liberal constitutionalism and post-colonialism, as some claim? [read post]
11 Feb 2014, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
Alyosha Goldstein (University of New Mexico) has posted "Finance and Foreclosure in the Colonial Present." [read post]
13 Feb 2019, 6:30 am by Karen Tani
 Weaving together a diverse range of sources, Newman shows how colonial racial ideologies rooted in fictions of blood ancestry at once justified permanent, hereditary slavery for Africans and barred members of certain marginalized groups from laying claim to British liberties on the basis of hereditary status. [read post]
19 Nov 2010, 4:20 am by Howard Friedman
., Nov. 17, 2010), the South Dakota Supreme Court held that it lacks jurisdiction over a dispute between two factions of the Hutterian Church, both claiming control of the non-profit corporation that controls the Hutterville Colony. [read post]
9 Sep 2020, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
The author claimed that the colonies were losing money, writing: What a prodigious sum for the united states of America to give up for the sake of a peace, that, very probably, itself would be one of the greatest misfortunes! [read post]
5 Jun 2022, 10:30 am by Mike LaChance
"You’re trying to solve every conflict with a catchall that is rooted in colonialism and white supremacy. [read post]
24 Feb 2019, 9:30 pm by Mitra Sharafi
Provoked by widespread indigenous rights activism of the 1970s, the Canadian state embarked on a large-scale examination of claims for rights and restitution. [read post]
29 Oct 2013, 3:37 pm by Thaddeus Hoffmeister
Using the criminal jury as a lens, I look at the claims of universal legal reform as particularly lending themselves to contestations over sovereignty. [read post]
22 Nov 2015, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
Beneath the racial reordering of colonial life, the institution of slavery was rooted in the same ideological distinction by which the colonial state’s claims to authority were justified, with the putative “savagery” of the slave or of the Indian being counterpoised to the supposed civility of English settlers. [read post]
16 Aug 2020, 10:30 pm by Mitra Sharafi
By tracing the history of age in colonial India she illuminates the role of law in sculpting modern subjects, demonstrating how seemingly natural age-based exclusions and understandings of legal minority became the alibi for other political exclusions and the minoritization of entire communities in colonial India. [read post]
27 Dec 2018, 4:00 am by Canadian Association of Law Libraries
Within the framework of settler colonialism, Kaye emphasizes the problematic nature of the discourse and narrative that drive anti-trafficking efforts in Canada, and how the language of these efforts serves to uphold and reinforce the values of the established patriarchy rather than truly support the people they claim to protect. [read post]
16 Dec 2015, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
Not least, the growing consciousness and strong claims to reconsider colonial history from the premises of postcolonial scholarship expose the discipline to an unseen necessity of reconsidering its very foundational concepts. [read post]
18 Mar 2019, 2:19 pm by Kevin LaCroix
The agency’s victory in the trial court in its case against PwC relating to Colonial Bank represented a significant portion of the agency’s professional liability recoveries in claims pursued in the wake of the recent global financial crisis and bank failure wave. [read post]