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After Empire: Training Lawyers as a Postcolonial Enterprise
- Small Axe
- Indiana University Press
- Number 25 (Volume 12, Number 1), February 2008
- pp. 38-56
- Article
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The early history of legal education in the English-speaking Caribbean reflects a struggle for local identity and authenticity, while serving multiple states. Because schools are key locales for the making of docile bodies, West Indian lawyers experienced “subjection,” a process that names new categories of persons but also subjects them to an articulation of disciplinary powers not of their own making.