Lawyer v. East India Company

Nurfadzilah Yahaya Blog Post

This is the first post on the World Legal History Blog that focuses on a historical source. From next week onwards, we will have other legal historians contributing posts on their own sources on any theme, time and place, between 500 and 800 words ideally. If you are interested in blogging on a historical source drawn from your own research, or to launch a discussion on a topic (or two) relevant to the study of World Legal History in general, email me at wlhblawg@gmail.com.

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Like other historians of colonialism and imperialism, I often wonder how European lawyers actually viewed their