One Law for All? - Western models and local practices in (post-) imperial contexts

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction – Stefan B. Kirmse

Discussing Legal Reform

A Step for the “Whole Civilized World”? The Debate over the Death Penalty in Russia, 1905–1917 – Benjamin Beuerle

A New Legal Order under Discussion: Legal Reform and the Loya Jirga in Afghanistan in the 1920s – Benjamin Buchholz

Agents of Knowledge Transfer: Western Debates and Psychiatric Experts in Late Imperial Russia – Lena Gautam

Gatekeepers to the Legal System: The Role of Legal Intermediaries

Tinterillos, Indians, and the State: Towards a History of Legal Intermediaries in Post-Independence Peru – Carlos Aguirre

The Ties that Bind: Sovereignty and Law in the Late Russian Empire – Jane Burbank

When People Go to Court

Law and Courts as Negotiating Tools: Marriage and Divorce in Republican China, 1912–1949 – Xiaoqun Xu

Dealing with Crime in Late Tsarist Russia: Muslim Tatars and the Imperial Legal System – Stefan B. Kirmse

Entanglements and Interactions within a Plural Legal Order: The Case of the German Colony Cameroon, 1884–1916 – Ulrike Schaper

De jure and de facto: The Penal Code of 1871 and Juridical Culture in Mexico City – Manuel de los Reyes García Márkina

Notes on Contributors

Index of Names and Places