The Demand for Extraterritoriality: Religious Minorities in Nineteenth-Century Egypt

Mohamed Saleh and Cihan Artunç

No 16431, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: The transplantation of European legal systems in the periphery often occurred via semi-colonial institutions, where Europeans were subject to their own jurisdictions that placed them outside the reach of local courts. In nineteenth-century Egypt, extraterritoriality was extended to local non-Muslims, who could acquire the legal protection of a European polity. Drawing on Egypt’s population censuses in 1848 and 1868, we show that locals did not seek extraterritoriality to place themselves under more efficient jurisdictions. Rather, legal protection mitigated uncertainty about which law would apply to any contractual relationship in an environment where multiple legal systems co-existed and overlapped.

Keywords: Legal pluralism; Extraterritoriality; Protégé; Non-muslim minorities; Middle east (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K40 N35 N45 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-08
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Journal Article: The demand for extraterritoriality: Religious minorities in nineteenth‐century Egypt (2024)
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