Robin C. C. Law (born 1944) is a British Africanist and since 2009

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of the

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at the

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. He obtained a BA degree in Literae Humaniores at the

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in 1967 and a PhD in History at the

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in 1972. As a researcher, he worked at the

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, Nigeria (1966–1969) and at the Centre of West African Studies of the University of Birmingham (1970–1972). He joined the University of Stirling in 1972, and was subsequently Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and Reader, becoming Professor of African History in 1993. He was a Visiting Fellow at the

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(1993–1994), and a visiting professor at

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, Canada (1996–1997) and the

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(2000–2001). Law received the Distinguished Africanist award of the

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for 2010.

Publications

Law published many scholarly books and research articles on Africa, including: * ''The Oyo Empire, c. 1600–c. 1836: A West African Imperialism in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade''. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977. Oxford Studies in African Affairs. * ''The horse in West African history : the role of the horse in the societies of pre-colonial West Africa'', Oxford: Oxford University Press for the International Africa Institute, 1980. New edition London : Routledge, 2020. * ''The slave coast of West Africa, 1550-1750 : the impact of the Atlantic slave trade on an African society'', Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991, 2002. * ''The English in West Africa, 1685-1688 : the local correspondence of the Royal African Company of England, 1681-1699'', by Law, Robin, Ed., Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, Part 1 and 2 (1681–1688); Part 1: 1997, Part 2: 2001, Part 3 (1691–1699): 2007. Fontes historiae Africanae, new series 5. * ''Ouidah : The Social History of a West African Slaving Port 1727-1892'', Athens: Ohio, Ohio University Press, 2004. Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer, 2017. * ''Dahomey and the ending of the trans-Atlantic slave trade : the journals and correspondence of Vice-Consul Louis Fraser, 1851-1852''. Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2012. Series: Fontes historiae Africanae, new series 10. * Benin, in ''Encyclopedia Britannica''.

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Academics of the University of Stirling Alumni of the University of Oxford Alumni of the University of Birmingham British Africanists British historians Living people 1944 births Presidents of the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Fellows of the British Academy Slavery in Africa {{UK-academic-bio-stub