The dossier contains documents concerning the workshop on "European Expansion and Law" held on 23-25 June 1988 in Bad-Hombourg: list of participants, programme, correspondence on the organisation of the workshop.
Papers presented at the workshop: "Some remarks on law and imperialism" by Jörg Fisch; "Dualism or unification" by C. Fasseur; "The popularity of Anglo-Indian Courts in the Encounter between British and Indian systems of law: three general approaches" by Pamela G. Price; "Legal expansion – the First Phase, some questions concerning future research on the administration of justice in major European settlements of maritime Asi, 1600-1750" by Horst-Joachim Leue; "The law market. The legal encounter in British east and central Africa" by Martin Chanock; "The development of the dual legal system in former Belgian central Africa (Zaire-Rwanda-Burundi) by Filip Reyntjens; "Jurisdiction as politics. The gold coast during the colonial period" by Jarle Simensen; "The treaty system and European law in China: a study on the exercise of British jurisdiction in late imperial China" by Paul H. Ch’en; "Droit européen et tradition au Japon à l’époque de Meiji" by Eric Seizelet; "The impact of European law in the Ottoman empire and Turkey": "The Indian and the British law machines" by D. H. A. Kolff; "Women and the legal discourse in colonial India" by Dagmar Engels.

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