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August 15, 2022

Court Cases and the Making of African Legal History

With support of the American Society for Legal History, researchers of the project ‘Global Legal History on the Ground’ (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory) have published a video series and a bibliography on ‘Court Cases and the Writing of African History’. The videos are in Portuguese with English subtitles. Both bibliography and videos aim to draw the attention of researchers to the potential that court cases offer in the writing of African history. They also provide basic information on how to work with this type of primary source.

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