L’École de droit de Pondichéry (1838-1960)

The history of legal education in French colonial contexts remains largely unwritten. In this perspective, our article focuses on an institution that has gone either unnoticed or historiographically underestimated: the Pondicherry Law School. Despite a difficult start, the School took root under the...

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Main Authors: Laetitia Guerlain, Florence Renucci
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 2021-12-01
Series:Cahiers Jean Moulin
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cjm/1278
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description The history of legal education in French colonial contexts remains largely unwritten. In this perspective, our article focuses on an institution that has gone either unnoticed or historiographically underestimated: the Pondicherry Law School. Despite a difficult start, the School took root under the Third Republic government. Unlike its more famous Indochinese counterpart, it operated without interruption under French rule until India's independence. Because of its functioning without academic teachers, the limited space in which it was established (French India), the fertile ground for reflection on Hindu and Islamic laws that it constituted and the sociology of its actors, the Pondicherry Law School is a laboratory to understand the micro-world of law and its incidence in local societies. 
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Florence Renucci
L’École de droit de Pondichéry (1838-1960)
Cahiers Jean Moulin
lawyers
legal education
colonies
India
magistrates
court officers
title L’École de droit de Pondichéry (1838-1960)
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legal education
colonies
India
magistrates
court officers
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