Administrative Law and Legitimacy in Anglophonic Africa: A Problem in the Reception of Foreign Law

Lawrence Friedman (1969: 29) has written that “many basic questions of the relationship of law to social change and to cultural development have been completely neglected. … How does law brighten or darken the road to political… stability. … What happens when laws are borrowed from more advanced cou...

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Published in:Law & society review 1970-11, Vol.5 (2), p.161-204
Main Author: Seidman, Robert B.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Administrative courts
Administrative law
Authoritarianism
Colonies
Employment
Government bureaucracy
Governors
Magistrates
Ordinances
Rule of law
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Summary:Lawrence Friedman (1969: 29) has written that “many basic questions of the relationship of law to social change and to cultural development have been completely neglected. … How does law brighten or darken the road to political… stability. … What happens when laws are borrowed from more advanced countries?” This paper examines the reception of English administrative law in Anglophonic Africa in an effort to discover some general propositions to answer Professor Friedman's questions.
ISSN:0023-9216
1540-5893
DOI:10.2307/3053033