Colonial law restructuring also engineered how colonized people thought about law

Evidence

Yet, this step of textual reengineering was only half of the plan. Rewriting and restructuring the two legal systems were to be further accompanied (as it indeed turned out they were) by another project of engineering the sociology of legal knowledge itself, this time as it existed in the mind of living human beings. Jones constructed a system that offered “a complete check on the native interpreters of the several codes,” a project that subjected the Indian’s mind to new modes of interpretation: disciplined, deductive, objective, orderly, and in line with “universal” conceptions of justice, equity, and fairness. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 261

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the pipe-and-network idea that authority flows through interpretive gatekeepers — parallel to the Chandela/banker-patron theme of controlling intermediaries.