European Expansion and Law

W. J. Mommsen Moor

• The law market - the legal encounter in British East and Centra Africa, M. Chanook; the development of the dual legal system in former Belgian Central Africa, F. Reyntjens; jurisdiction as politics - the Gold Coast during the Colonial period, J. Simensen; legal developments in the Maghrib, 1830-1930, J.-L. Miege; the impact of European law on the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, E. Orucu; European law and tradition in Japan during the Meiji era, 1868-1912, E. Seizelet; the treaty system and European law in China, P.H. Ch'en; colonial dilemma - Van Vollenhoven and the struggle between Adat law and Western law in Indonesia, C. Fasseur; the Indian and British law machines - remarks on law and society in British India, D.H.A Kolff; the "popularity" of the imperial courts of law - three views of the Anglo-Indian legal encounter, P. Price; wives, widows and workers - women and the law in the Anglo-Indian legal ecounter, D. Engels; symbiosis of indigenous and Western law in Africa and Asia - an essay in legal pluralism, F. von Benda-Beckmann; law as a means and law an an end - some remarks on the function of the European and non-European law in the process of European expansion, J. Fisch.