Introduction to the Legal System in East Africa

by Harvey


William Burnett Harvey Is Professor of Law and Political Science In Boston University. He has served as Professor of Law in the University of Michigan (1951- 66) and Indiana University (1966 -73). and was Dean of the Faculty of Law of Indiana University horn 1966 through 1971. Professor Harvey has been Interested In African legal development since the 19506 From 1962 to 1960 he was Professor of Law and Dean of the Faculty of Law In the University of Ghana and served simultaneously as Ghana's Director of Legal Education. The current book grows out of his period as Visiting Professor of Law in the University of Nairobi (1971.72). In addition to numerous publications In legal periodicals, Professor Harvey is the author of Low and Social Change in Ghana (1966). The evolution of the legal institutions of a society reflects the power balance among Its constituent groups and the interests they pursue. Once established, however, the legal order possesses great stability and does not yield readily to pressures for the change of even that magnitude engendered by the end of European colonisation in Africa and the advent of sovereign African states This book explores the development of the legal Institutions of Kenya. Tanzania and Uganda and the beginnings of their adaptation to the imperatives of Independent nationhood 

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