%S Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice %A Pascaline le Polain de Waroux %A Laurence Montel %A Enika Ngongo %A B?reng?re Piret %T Magistrates of Congo (1885-1960): Prosopography and Biography as Combined Tools for the Study of the Colonial Judicial Body %X 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. %P 213-232 %B Modernisation of the Criminal Justice Chain and the Judicial System. New insights on Trust, Cooperation and Human Capital. %E Annie Hondenghem %E Xavier Rousseaux %E Fr?d?ric Schoenaers %V 50 %C Brussels %D 2016 %I Springer %L justhis7548