Bonny Ibhawoh is an Associate Professor of History and Human Rights at McMaster University. He teaches and researches in the fields of African, imperial and legal history, human rights, and peace/conflict studies. His last book, Imperialism and Human Rights, was named Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

Imperial Justice opens the door of a rich archive that provides an additional lens to examine histories of empires. Along with laboratories of legal modernity, appeal courts also showed the forced insertion of Africans within liberalism, individualism, and capitalist monetization of human emotions such as grief and pain as well as the establishment of local rigid social hierarchies. Imperial Justice: African Empire's Court is a necessary monograph on the relationship between jurisprudence and the British Empire.

• 1. Africa and the Umpires of Empire ; 2. The Great Chief Overseas ; 3. Repugnant Customs and Alien Courts ; 4. Medicine Murders and Blood Money ; 5. Litigious Chiefs and Land Palavers ; 6. Unknown God: The Limits of Imperial Justice ; 7. Conclusions ; Bibliography

Bonny Ibhawoh is an Associate Professor of History and Human Rights at McMaster University. He teaches and researches in the fields of African, imperial and legal history, human rights, and peace/conflict studies. His last book, Imperialism and Human Rights, was named Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

Imperial Justice opens the door of a rich archive that provides an additional lens to examine histories of empires. Along with laboratories of legal modernity, appeal courts also showed the forced insertion of Africans within liberalism, individualism, and capitalist monetization of human emotions such as grief and pain as well as the establishment of local rigid social hierarchies. Imperial Justice: African Empire's Court is a necessary monograph on the relationship between jurisprudence and the British Empire.

• 1. Africa and the Umpires of Empire ; 2. The Great Chief Overseas ; 3. Repugnant Customs and Alien Courts ; 4. Medicine Murders and Blood Money ; 5. Litigious Chiefs and Land Palavers ; 6. Unknown God: The Limits of Imperial Justice ; 7. Conclusions ; Bibliography

Bonny Ibhawoh is an Associate Professor of History and Human Rights at McMaster University. He teaches and researches in the fields of African, imperial and legal history, human rights, and peace/conflict studies. His last book, Imperialism and Human Rights, was named Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

Imperial Justice opens the door of a rich archive that provides an additional lens to examine histories of empires. Along with laboratories of legal modernity, appeal courts also showed the forced insertion of Africans within liberalism, individualism, and capitalist monetization of human emotions such as grief and pain as well as the establishment of local rigid social hierarchies. Imperial Justice: African Empire's Court is a necessary monograph on the relationship between jurisprudence and the British Empire.

• 1. Africa and the Umpires of Empire ; 2. The Great Chief Overseas ; 3. Repugnant Customs and Alien Courts ; 4. Medicine Murders and Blood Money ; 5. Litigious Chiefs and Land Palavers ; 6. Unknown God: The Limits of Imperial Justice ; 7. Conclusions ; Bibliography