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Martin Chanock
Researcher at La Trobe University
Publications - 19
Citations - 1070
Martin Chanock is an academic researcher from La Trobe University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Comparative law & Common law. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 19 publications receiving 1057 citations. Previous affiliations of Martin Chanock include University of Zimbabwe & New York University.
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Law, custom, and social order : the colonial experience in Malawi and Zambia
TL;DR: Chanock as discussed by the authors explores the historical formation during the colonial period of that part of African law known as customary law, and shows how African ideas, aspirations and activities regarding law were shaped by interaction with the legal ideas of the British colonisers, their understandings of African societies, and the judicial institutions of the colonial state.
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The Making of South African Legal Culture 1902–1936: Fear, Favour and Prejudice
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a list of abbreviations for South African Common Law A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J.
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A Peculiar Sharpness: An Essay on Property in the History of Customary Law in Colonial Africa
TL;DR: In this article, a general framework for thinking about African ideas about proprietary rights and how this might produce insights into ideas about social relations is presented, and the development of a customary law came first to the "law of persons" and then to the law of property.