Law and Justice, 1939-1968
File
Shelfmark: MSS. Perham 731
Held at the Weston Library
Contains:
- folder 1 (fols. 1-6) notes by Margery Perham on a definition of law from the Encyclopaedia of Social Sciences, on early Anglo-Saxon law, and on justice and a statement on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council by the Central Office of Information, 1940-1951
- folder 2 (fols. 1-10) correspondence with C.A. Bedwell, Honorary Secretary of the Society of Comparative Legislation, about a possible article for its journal by Margery Perham, 1941
- folder 3 (fols. 1-18) South African Institute of Race Relations bibliography of 'Literature relating to Short-term Imprisonment' and memoranda on the prison population, industrial legislation in 1945, penal reform, criminal procedure, stock theft, and prison labour, 1944-1945
- folder 4 (fols. 1-13) papers delivered at the Cambridge Summer School on Local Government by Charles Matthews on 'African Customary Law and Courts' and by another speaker on 'A Belgian Method of reducing Native Customary Law to writing Preliminary to Codification' (see MSS. Perham 252, folder 3), 1947
- folder 5 (fols. 1-78 and item 1) articles sent by Alan Milner, General Editor of the African Law Reports, including: 'M'Naughten and the Witch Doctor, Psychiatry and Crime in Africa', University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Philadelphia, Vol. 114, No. 8, Jun 1966 (fols. 2-38); Preface to African Penal Systems (fols. 39-46), 'The Maintenance of Public Order in Nigeria', Chapter 8 of The Politics and Administration of Nigerian Government (item 1); 'Legal Education and Training in Nigeria', Journal of Legal Education (fols. 47-57); 'The Sanctions of Customary Criminal Law', The Nigerian Penal System (fols. 58-69); and an account of the African Law Reports Project (fols. 70-78), 1966-1968
- folder 6 (unfoliated) law and justice, press cuttings, 1939-1955
- folder 7 (unfoliated) justice in Africa, press cuttings, 1940-1961.
Dates
- Creation: 1939-1968
Extent
7 items
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MSS. Perham 731
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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Weston Library
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specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk