International records / OpenAlex research

Introduction

Since the day when, in my first year of teaching, I found myself trying to explain the feudal origins of trover to a puzzled class of Sudanese students, I have had occasional flickers of doubt whether the English law of torts has been one of Britain's most appropriate colonial legacies. One journey down the Lagos-Ibadan road should suffice to raise questions about the suitability of the common-law action for negligence as an instrument for compensating for or reducing road accidents in Nigeria; while the amount of damages awarded in some East African personal injuries actions, like the Mercede…