One Law for All?

Delving into archival material from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, "One Law for All?" examines the law in imperial and post-imperial contexts across the globe, including Latin America, Russia, Africa, and East Asia. The essays collected here reveal the law as a site of struggle, both in debate and in everyday life, and from the level of universal aspirations down to specific practices. The contributors explore the ways both lawmakers and ordinary people talk about and actively use the law, thereby telling a story of contested European hegemony, local assertions, and multiple legal borrowings.