The Grand Experiment: Law and Legal Culture in British Settler Societies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780774814928)

The essays in this volume reflect the exciting new directions in which legal history in the settler colonies of the British Empire has developed. The contributors show how local life and culture in selected settlements influenced, and was influenced by, the ideology of the rule of law that accompanied the British colonial project. Exploring themes of legal translation, local understandings, judicial biography, and "law at the boundaries," they examine the legal cultures of dominions in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand to provide a contextual and comparative account of the "incomplete implementation of the British constitution" in these colonies.

Author: Hamar Foster
ISBN-10: 0774814926
ISBN-13: 9780774814928
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2009
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback