Colonial Justice and Decolonization in the High Court of Tanzania, 1920-1971

Ellen R. Feingold completed her DPhil in history at the University of Oxford in 2012. She is a museum curator and also a faculty affiliate of the African Studies Program at Georgetown University.

1. Introduction.- Part I: The High Court of Tanganyika under British Rule, 1920-1958.- 2 Building a Judiciary for the Empire: The Development of the Colonial Legal Service.- 3 The Marginalization of the High Court under Indirect Rule, 1920-1944.- 4 The Resurgence and Expansion of Tanganyika's Judiciary, 1945-1958.- Part II: Decolonizing the High Court of Tanganyika, 1959-1971.- 5 Restructuring Colonial Justice, Empowering the High Court, 1959-1964.- 6 Colonial Judges in a Fading Empire, 1961-1965.- 7 Foreign Judges and the Emergence of a Tanzanian Judiciary, 1964-1971.- 8 Conclusion.

"It is a comprehensible and engaging book, whose chapters are formulated chronologically, which is plausible as the author aims to take the reader through a transitional and developmental period. ... Feingold's methodology and sources enable a thorough inquiry into the multifaceted colonial encounter in the courts of law and of the subsequent disentanglement which aimed to refashion African juridical structures in a way which did not mirror that of the imperial state." (Winner Ijeoma, Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Rg, Issue 28, 2020)