The essay enquires into the nature of the ‘colonial laws’ that colonial powers (Spain, France, Britain, Germany, Italy) enacted to govern the populations of their overseas territories. The focus is on the hybrid character of that law between (public) international law and domestic (administrative) law. Hybridity served to protect colonial rule from being critiqued by international criteria while enabling treating colonial populations by standards different from those applied to citizens. The essay asks the question to what extent today’s new laws in Europe that seek to deal with aliens might seek a similar hybridity.

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殖民地法律：渊源，策略和教训？

本文探讨了殖民统治权（西班牙，法国，英国，德国，意大利）颁布的管辖其海外领土人口的“殖民法”的性质。重点是该法律在（公法）国际法和国内法（行政法）之间的混合特征。混合性可以防止殖民统治不受国际标准的批评，同时可以通过不同于适用于公民的标准来对待殖民人口。这篇文章提出了一个问题，即当今欧洲试图与外国人打交道的新法律在何种程度上可能寻求类似的混合性。