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LSAA Assessment 1 2019-20

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AS1

Study Abroad Assignment

Summer 2020 Resit Information

155200073 LSAA Exam-Replacement-Essay Questions SUMMER RESIT All years

Exam Replacement Essay

155200073 Legal Systems of Asia and Africa

Week 1: What is Law?

Ruskola (2002) Legal Orientalism

Idowu (2004) African Philosophy of Law

LSAA Tutorial 1 What is Law?

LSAA Week 1 What is Law

Week 2: Legal systems and legal pluralism

Orucu (2008) What Is a Mixed Legal System

Tamanaha (2008) Understanding Legal Pluralism

Sharafi (2008) Justice in Many Rooms since Galanter

LSAA Tutorial 2 Legal Systems and Legal Pluralism

Week 2 Legal systems and legal pluralism

Week 3: Colonial encounters with legal pluralism

Benton (2004) A place for the state

Merry (1991) Law and Colonialism

Ibhawoh (2013) Africa and the Umpires of Empire

LSAA Tutorial 3 Colonial encounters with legal pluralism

LSAA Week 3 Colonial encounters with legal pluralism

Week 4: Islamic law and Empire | Case study: Nigeria

Vikør (2005) ‘Introduction: Does Islamic Law Exist?’

Moosa (2009) ‘Colonialism and Islamic Law’

Hamzić (2010) ‘Nigeria’

Highly Recommended Readings

LSAA Tutorial 4: Islamic Law and Empire | Case Study: Nigeria

LSAA Week 4: Islamic law and Empire | Case study: Nigeria

Week 5: Muslim personal laws and the majoritarian state | Case study: India

Herklotz (2017) Walking a tightrope

Menon (2014) A Uniform Civil Code in India

Agnes (2018) The Politics behind Criminalising Triple Talaq

LSAA Tutorial 5 Muslim Personal Laws in India

Optional readings

Week 7: Legal culture and justice | Case study: Tanzania

Ibhawoh (2009) Historical globalization and colonial legal culture: African assessors

Kyando &amp; Maina-Peter (1994) Lay People in the Administration of Justice-Assessors in Tanzania

Hayward (2013) The Incomplete Centralization of Tanzania's Post-Colonial Judiciary

LSAA Tutorial 6 Legal Culture and Justice-Tanzania

Week 7-Legal culture and justice-Case Study Tanzania

Week 8: Legal transplants

Legrand (1997) The Impossibility of Legal Transplants

Twining (2006) Globalisation and Legal Discourse

Siems (2018) Malicious legal transplants

LSAA Week 8 Legal Transplants

LSAA Week 8 Legal Transplants

Further readings for examination by essay

Week 9: Gender equality in multicultural societies | Case Study: Muslim divorce and alimony in India

Okin (1998) Feminism and Multiculturalism

Mullally (2004) Feminism and Multicultural Dilemmas in India

Mohd. Ahmed Khan v Shah Bano Begum (1985)

LSAA Week 9 Gender Equality in Multicultural Societies

LSAA Week 9 Gender Equality in Multicultural Societies

Further readings for examination by essay

Week 10: Customary law, property rights and women in Africa | Case study: Kenya

Kenya Justice Project

Joireman (2011) Enforcing Customary Property Rights Regimes in Common Law Africa

Kameri-Mbote (2002) Gender dimensions of Law, Colonialism and Inheritance in Kenya

Joshua Kiprono Cheruiyot v Rachel Cherotich Korir [2017] eKLR

LSAA Tutorial Week 10:Customary law, property rights and women in Africa | Case study: Kenya

LSAA Weel 10 lecture

Further reading for examination by essay

Week 11: Law, film, and literature in Asia and Africa

Creekmur (2007) Introduction to Cinema, Law and the State in Asia

Kamir (2005) Why Law and Film

Machura et al (2001) Law in Film

MacPherson (2007) Spectacular Expectations

Kyando & Maina-Peter (1994) Lay People in the Administration of Justice-Assessors in Tanzania

Documentary: South Africa: Law & Freedom

LSAA - SA - Law, Rights & Transformation

Daniel, J, 'The TRC Process: A Retrospective', Ch. 3 in Jenkins C. & du Plessis M (eds.), 'Law, Nationbuilding & Transformation: The SA Experience in Perspective (2014)

Hualing & Cullen, Weiquan lawyering (2008)

REQUIRED: Schabas, W. A., 'Post-Genocide Justice in Rwanda: A Spectrum of Options' - Ch. 11 in 'After Genocide', eds/ Clark & Kaufman (2008)