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Law and Social Change in Ghana
By (Author) William Burnett Harvey
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Social theory
Crime and criminology
Social groups, communities and identities
349.667
Hardback
468
Width 127mm, Height 203mm
567g
While Professor of Law and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Ghana from 1962 to 1964, the author personally observed the evolving legal order in Ghana during a crucial period in that country's development. Here, he considers statutes and judicial decisions. Working from the premise that law is a value-neutral technique of social order