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Chief Justice James Prendergast and the administration of New Zealand colonial justice, 1862-1899
… British legal system and adapted it to suit the colonial environment. These adaptations resulted in conflict with Maori and eventually the supremacy of British law in New Zealand. This thesis explores the role of James Prendergast in helping to create the colonial New Zealand legal system. …
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Fallahin on Trial in Colonial Egypt: Apprehending the Peasantry through Orality, Writing, and Performance
… pages of criminal files, I deconstruct how the colonial state used the modern techniques of judicial orality, writing, and performance, both to justify a series of reforms that turned the entire legal process into a parody of justice, and to develop a grand narrative that essentialized peasants …