title: Magistrates of Congo (1885-1960): Prosopography and Biography as Combined Tools for the Study of the Colonial Judicial Body
creator: le Polain de Waroux, Pascaline
creator: Montel, Laurence
creator: Ngongo, Enika
creator: Piret, Bérengère
subject: 8. Belgium and colonial justice
subject: 2. General information on colonial period (economy, (forced) labor, society,...)
subject: 6. The colonial magistrates
description: 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.
publisher: Springer
contributor: Hondenghem, Annie
contributor: Rousseaux, Xavier
contributor: Schoenaers, Frédéric
date: 2016
type: Book Section
type: PeerReviewed
identifier:   le Polain de Waroux, Pascaline and Montel, Laurence and Ngongo, Enika and Piret, Bérengère  (2016) Magistrates of Congo (1885-1960): Prosopography and Biography as Combined Tools for the Study of the Colonial Judicial Body.   In: Hondenghem, Annie and Rousseaux, Xavier and Schoenaers, Frédéric, (eds.) Modernisation of the Criminal Justice Chain and the Judicial System. New insights on Trust, Cooperation and Human Capital.   Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, 50 .  Springer, Brussels, pp. 213-232.      
relation: http://www.just-his.be/eprints/7548/