GB 0102 PP MS 74 - School of Oriental and African Studies: Restatement of African Law Project

30 boxes

GB 0102 PP MS 74 1902-1977 Collection (fonds) 30 boxes School of Oriental and African Studies , Department of Law , Restatement of African Law Project

The Restatement of African Law Project was a research initiative based at the Department of Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), active from the 1950s to the 1970s. Dr Antony N Allott (1924-2002), successively Lecturer, 1948, Reader, 1960, Professor, 1964, and Emeritus Professor, 1987, of African Law at SOAS, was involved in the project and edited the resulting series of publications (published by Sweet and Maxwell from 1968).

Transferred by the Department of Law at SOAS and received in the Library in 1994.

Records, 1902-1977 and undated, of and accumulated by the Restatement of African Law Project (RALP), School of Oriental and African Studies, comprising papers of RALP relating to administration, including minutes; and research material, such as notes, publications, theses, and other collected papers, on tribes and places including Basutoland (Lesotho), Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Nigeria, Northern Rhodesia and Zambia, Sierra Leone, the Sudan, Tanganyika, Zanzibar and Tanzania, and Uganda, relating to customs, aspects of law including succession, slavery, marriage and divorce, land tenure, legal systems, including customary law, legislation, courts, and particular legal cases.

The papers were weeded following consultation with Dr A N Allott and a large amount of material was removed.

Unrestricted.

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.
English

Unpublished outline handlist, but the records are not catalogued to item level.

Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Source: British Library OPAC. Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. Apr 2002 Administration of justice Africa African cultures Agricultural economics Allott , Antony N , 1924-2002 , Professor of African Law Basutoland Cameroon Central Africa Civil and political rights Civil law Courts Cultural heritage Customary law Customs and traditions Divorce East Africa Educational evaluation Ethiopia Ethnic groups Examinations Family Family disorganization Family environment Family law Gambia Ghana Human rights Kenya Land economics Land tenure Law Legal decisions Legal procedure Legal systems Legislation Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Marriage National cultures Nigeria Northern Rhodesia Organization of research Research programmes Research projects Research work Right to property School of Oriental and African Studies , Department of Law , Restatement of African Law Project x Restatement of African Law Project Sierra Leone Slavery Social research Social science research Social structure Southern Africa Student evaluation Sudan Tanganyika Tanzania UR Theses Tribes Uganda West Africa Written examinations Zambia Zanzibar

Transferred by the Department of Law at SOAS and received in the Library in 1994.

Records, 1902-1977 and undated, of and accumulated by the Restatement of African Law Project (RALP), School of Oriental and African Studies, comprising papers of RALP relating to administration, including minutes; and research material, such as notes, publications, theses, and other collected papers, on tribes and places including Basutoland (Lesotho), Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Nigeria, Northern Rhodesia and Zambia, Sierra Leone, the Sudan, Tanganyika, Zanzibar and Tanzania, and Uganda, relating to customs, aspects of law including succession, slavery, marriage and divorce, land tenure, legal systems, including customary law, legislation, courts, and particular legal cases.

The papers were weeded following consultation with Dr A N Allott and a large amount of material was removed.

Unrestricted.

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.

• English

• Latin

English

Unpublished outline handlist, but the records are not catalogued to item level.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• English