@incollection{justhis7548, volume = {50}, author = {Pascaline le Polain de Waroux and Laurence Montel and Enika Ngongo and B{\'e}reng{\`e}re Piret}, series = {Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice}, booktitle = {Modernisation of the Criminal Justice Chain and the Judicial System. New insights on Trust, Cooperation and Human Capital.}, editor = {Annie Hondenghem and Xavier Rousseaux and Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric Schoenaers}, address = {Brussels}, title = {Magistrates of Congo (1885-1960): Prosopography and Biography as Combined Tools for the Study of the Colonial Judicial Body}, publisher = {Springer}, year = {2016}, pages = {213--232}, url = {http://www.just-his.be/eprints/7548/}, abstract = {This chapter presents the first results of a prosopographical study on Belgian colonial magistrates. After a presentation of sources and their limits, it comes back on the exploitation of data arranged around four moments of the professional path of the magistrate: recruitment, training, career and the return in Belgium. This general analysis is followed by a focus on the unusual career of Antoine Sohier, colonial magistrate who became president at the Court of cassation.} }