Legal Pluralism and the Search for Justice

Abstract

Twenty-four years ago Henry Morris and Jim Read, in Indirect Rule and the Search for Justice , provided a wealth of illuminating information about the history of the legal systems of the East African colonial states. But an even greater merit of their book than its detailed data is its coherence and depth of analysis. These result from their adherence to a constant reference point, the “search for justice”. This concept may still be useful in the study of law in Africa today.