Shaunnagh Dorsett and Ian Hunter, ed., Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought: Transpositions of Empire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)

A collection that focuses on the role of European law in colonial contexts and engages with recent treatments of this theme in known works written largely from within the framework of postcolonial studies, which implicitly discuss colonial deployments of European law and politics via the concept of ideology.

Contents:

PART I: EUROPEAN LAW AND GLOBAL JUSTICE

Global Justice and Regional Metaphysics: On the Critical History of the Law of Nature and Nations; I.Hunter

Justice and Imperialism: On the Very Idea of a Universal Standard; D.Ivison

PART II: TRANSPOSITIONS OF EMPIRE

The Legalities of English Colonizing: Discourses of European Intrusion upon the Americas, ca. 1490-1830; C.Tomlins

The Uses of the Rule of Law in British Colonial Societies in the Nineteenth Century; J.McLaren

‘Your Sovereign and Our Father’: The Imperial Crown and the Idea of Legal-Ethnohistory; M.D.Walters

The Justification of King Leopold II’s Congo Enterprise by Sir Travers Twiss; A.Fitzmaurice

PART III: FRONTIERS OF JUSTICE

Samuel Marsden’s Civility: The Transposition of Anglican Civil Authority to Australasia;

A.Sharp The Limits of Jurisdiction: Law, Governance and Indigenous Peoples in Colonized Australia;

M.Finnane The Pig and the Peace: Transposing Order in Early Sydney; L.Ford

William Pember Reeves (1857-1932): Lawyer-Politician, Historian and ‘Rough Architect’ of the New Zealand State; P.G.McHugh

PART IV: THE CROWN IN COLONIAL NEW ZEALAND

Sovereignty as Governance in the Early New Zealand Crown Colony Period; S.Dorsett

Imperial Policy, Colonial Government and Indigenous Testimony in South Australia and New Zealand in the 1840s; D.Ward

Law and Politics in the Constitutional Delineation of Indigenous Property Rights in 1840s New Zealand; M.Hickford