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School of Oriental and African Studies

School of Oriental and African Studies: Restatement of African Law Project


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0102 PP MS 74

Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies

Title: School of Oriental and African Studies: Restatement of African Law Project

Date(s): 1902-1977

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 30 boxes

Name of creator(s): School of Oriental and African Studies | Department of Law | Restatement of African Law Project

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Restatement of African Law Project was a research initiative based at the Department of Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), active from the 1950s to the 1970s. Dr Antony N Allott (1924-2002), successively Lecturer, 1948, Reader, 1960, Professor, 1964, and Emeritus Professor, 1987, of African Law at SOAS, was involved in the project and edited the resulting series of publications (published by Sweet and Maxwell from 1968).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records, 1902-1977 and undated, of and accumulated by the Restatement of African Law Project (RALP), School of Oriental and African Studies, comprising papers of RALP relating to administration, including minutes; and research material, such as notes, publications, theses, and other collected papers, on tribes and places including Basutoland (Lesotho), Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Nigeria, Northern Rhodesia and Zambia, Sierra Leone, the Sudan, Tanganyika, Zanzibar and Tanzania, and Uganda, relating to customs, aspects of law including succession, slavery, marriage and divorce, land tenure, legal systems, including customary law, legislation, courts, and particular legal cases.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Unpublished outline handlist, but the records are not catalogued to item level.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

The papers were weeded following consultation with Dr A N Allott and a large amount of material was removed.

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred by the Department of Law at SOAS and received in the Library in 1994.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Source: British Library OPAC.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Apr 2002


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
African cultures | National cultures
Courts | Administration of justice
Customary law | Law
Customs and traditions | Cultural heritage
Family disorganization | Family environment | Family
Family law | Civil law | Legal systems | Law
Land tenure | Land economics | Agricultural economics
Legal decisions | Legal procedure | Administration of justice
Legislation | Law
Research projects | Research programmes | Organization of research
Right to property | Civil and political rights | Human rights
Slavery | Social structure
Theses | Written examinations | Examinations | Student evaluation | Educational evaluation
Tribes | Ethnic groups
Divorce x Family disorganization
Social science research x Social research
Marriage
Research work

Personal names
Allott | Antony N | 1924-2002 | Professor of African Law

Corporate names
School of Oriental and African Studies | Department of Law | Restatement of African Law Project x Restatement of African Law Project

Places
Cameroon | Central Africa
Ethiopia | East Africa
Gambia | West Africa | Africa
Ghana | West Africa | Africa
Kenya | East Africa
Lesotho | Southern Africa
Madagascar | East Africa
Malawi | Central Africa
Nigeria | West Africa | Africa
Sierra Leone | West Africa | Africa
Sudan | East Africa
Uganda | East Africa
Zambia | Southern Africa
Zanzibar | Tanzania UR | East Africa
Basutoland x Lesotho
Northern Rhodesia x Zambia
Tanganyika x Tanzania UR