Robin Leon Gogol

The ideals of justice and principles of equity immanent in German civil law are decisive for the legal examination of acquisition processes under colonial law. Robin Leon Gogol provides an overview of colonial law through a legal-historical evaluation of sources and, by examining the legal framework of the history of German colonisation, establishes the impact of the law on provenance research before concluding by elaborating categories of legal legitimacy for the concrete individual case of a historical provenance examination. In doing so, he addresses abstract legal questions as well as the exciting provenance story of the "Feather Crown from Cameroon", which presumably passed from the possession of Manga Ndumbe Bell into the hands of the German missionary Theodor Christaller. The legal investigation of colonial acquisitions is governed by the ideals of justice and equity immanent in German civil law. Robin Leon Gogol provides an overview of colonial law by evaluating legal-historical sources. Besides, he analyses the legal framework of the German colonisation history and its impact on laws on provenance research in order to elaborate categories of legal legitimacy for an individual case of a historical provenance analysis. In doing so, he addresses abstract legal issues as well as the interesting provenance story of the "Feather Crown of Cameroon", which presumably passed from the possession of Manga Ndumbe Bell, into the hands of the German missionary Theodor Christaller.