Decolonisation of Legal KnowledgeAmita Dhanda, Archana Parashar The premise of this book is that legal theory in general, and critical legal theory in particular, do not facilitate the identification of choices being made in the different facets of law -- whether in the enacting, interpreting, administering or theorising of law. |
Contents
Rethinking Emancipatory Politics in Contemporary Africa | 1 |
Chapter 2 The Successful Failing of Legal Theory | 44 |
The Curse of SpiderMan | 64 |
Westernisation the Development and the Underdevelopment of International Laws | 91 |
Interrogating the Female Trafficked Migrant | 127 |
Divorce and the Division of Farming Property in Australia | 152 |
Chapter 7 Responsibility for Legal Knowledge | 178 |
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