Ollikainen-Read and Murphy on Law as a Means of Communicating Colonial Control in India: Max Planck Lawcast, Episode 8 @maxplancklaw @mpilhlt

Erica Ollikainen-Read, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, and Christopher Murphy, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, have published Law as a Means of Communicating Colonial Control in India, as Max Planck Lawcast, Episode 8. Here is the abstract.

In this episode of the Lawcast, Erica Ollikainen-Read explains to Christopher Murphy that the British Empire was not just shipping, merchants, soldiers, cannon, and conquest. Rather, some of the most long-lasting parts of the British Empire are the ideas, laws, and symbols which Britain transplanted to their colonies, some of which remain to this day. One such case in point is India, where the British colonial presence and the nature of Britain’s priorities shifted over time. By viewing the law from the perspective of communication, we can see how colonial legal culture and the way in which it was used as a tool for control in India also changed

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