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American Teachers in African Universities: The Case of Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

James C. N. Paul
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This paper is concerned with the role and responsibilities of Americans who go to African universities to profess, and with the rationale of such undertakings.

In some ways, this may seem to be a threadbare topic. The values to be achieved from such transcultural experiences have long been assumed. At least since World War II and Senator Fulbright’s great initiatives, teaching abroad has been a favored activity. Yet recently we have taken a more skeptical view. The Fulbright and other programs are in some disarray in Africa today, and there is no longer much enthusiasm, in official “development circles,” for exporting university teachers.

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Research Article
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African Issues , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , Spring 1977 , pp. 1 - 7
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1977 

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Notes

1. Gower, L.B.C., Independent Africa: The Challenge to the Legal Profession (1967).

2. Paul, J.C.N., “Legal Education in English-Speaking Africa,” Journal of Legal Education 15:189 (1961).Google Scholar

3. For example, a big 1961 Lagos conference on “The Rule of Law in Independent Africa.”

4. For example, in London in 1960, Accra in 1962, and Sierra Leone in 1963.

5. Bainbridge, J.S., The Study and Teaching of Lamin Africa (1972).

6. Ibid.

7. See Douglas, W.O., “Lawyers of the Peace Corps,” American Bar Association Journal 48:909 (1962).Google Scholar

8. See International Legal Center, Conference on American Teachers of African Law, New York. February 27-28, 1970.

9. Martin, R., “Notes on Legal Literature in East Africa” (1975).

10. For illustrative literature discussing these kinds of propositions in relation to various sectors of activity, see, e.g., Seidman, R..S., “Law and Social Change in Africa,” (Unpublished Monography: 1975); Ghai, Y.P., and J.P.W.B. McAuslan, Public Law and Political Change in Kenya (1970); Bryde, Brun-Otto, The Politics and Sociology of African Legal Development (1976); and Luckham, R.S.

11. Friedman, L., “On Legal Development,” Rutgers Law Review 24:11 (1969).Google Scholar

12. Trubek, D., and Galanter, M., “Scholars in Self-Estrangement: The Crisis in Law and Development Studies in the United States,” Wisconsin Law Review (1975), p.53.Google Scholar

13. Seidman, R.S., Comment on Trubek and Galanter.

14. Trubek, D., and Galanter, M., op.cit.

15. See Howard, J.B., “International Legal Studies,” University of Chicago Law Review 26:577 (1959).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

16. Pye (1966).

17. Cf. Trubek; Trubek and Galanter.

18. Spaulding; Beckstrom.

19. For a bibliography see Johnstone, Q., “American Assistance to African Legal Education,” Tulane Law Review 46:657 (1972); and for a fine recent example see Harvey, W.B., Law and Social Change in Ghana (1966), An Introduction to the Legal System of East Africa.

20. Harvey, ibid., and the extensive work of Seidman now synthesized but unpublished (1975) are good examples.

21. Abel (1968); Beckstrom (1972).

22. For example. Twining, W.L.T., Legal Education Within East Africa (1966); Ghai and McAuslan, op.cit.; and Bryde, op.cit.

23. See the “reports” of Paul and Twining (1972) on legal education in Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland; and Gower, Stevens, and Johnstone, Report of a Committee Appointed to Study and Make Recommendations Concerning Legal Education Sessional Paper No. 3, Uganda Government (1969).

24. International Legal Center, Legal Education in a Changing World, 1975.

25. Ghai, op.cit.

26. International Legal Center, Legal Education in a Changing World.

27. See Martin, R., “Notes on Legal Literature in East Africa” (1975).