David Schorr, Tel Aviv University Buchmann Faculty of Law, has posted The Creation of “Colonial Law” in British Legal Literature, which is forthcoming in Legal Unification Through Case Law: Supreme Courts and the Emergence of Uniform Law in the Modern Era, ed. Martin Loehnig (2027):
As an extension of ongoing research on the case law of the Judicial Committee of the Privy
Council (hereinafter: the Privy Council), which served as a court of appeal for the empire (excluding Britain itself), this chapter examines the ways in which legal books of the time developed and reflected a consciousness of a diverse yet somehow unified corpus that could be compiled and comprehended as a new legal system-'colonial law'. More particularly, it argues that it was the existence and activity of the globe-spanning, empire-wide jurisdiction of the Privy Council, alongside various other facets of the imperial legal system administered from Westminster, that spurred the creation of this new 'colonial law'.
--Dan Ernst
