Write a reaction papers of 600 words based on the course readings, on the topic of ‘Legal Transplants and Colonial Legacies’. There’re two required readings and one optional reading which I’ve attached on this, also the example reaction paper with citing and comments. This is the instructions I’ve got for this assignment, This session will critically examine the role of legal transplants in transnational criminal law. We will consider in particular the Indian Penal Code, 1860 adopted in several British colonies. This will help us to contemplate the implications of colonial criminal law for the rule of law in postcolonial states. 1. How did colonial legal transplants work according to Metcalfe? 2. What challenges did the British face in exporting the IPC to their colonies? 3. How did the codification of the IPC relate to the colonial powers civilizational project of rule of law for the colonies? 4. What are the parallels or differences if any between contemporary transnational and international criminal law and colonial criminal law? Required Readings: Thomas Metcalfe, Imperial Connections: India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1860-1920, Chapter 1 Governing Colonial Peoples, pp. 16-45 David Skuy, Macaulay and the Indian Penal Code of 1862: The Myth of the Inherent Superiority and Modernity of the English Legal System Compared to Indias Legal System in the Nineteenth Century, Modern Asian Studies 32, 3 (1998), pp. 513557 Optional readings: Iza Hussin, Circulations of Law: Colonial Precedents, Contemporary Questions. Oati Socio-Legal Series 2(7), 18-32 (2012)Show more
