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9 Soc. & Legal Stud. 5 (2000)

handle is hein.journals/solestu9 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWRENCE TSHUMA (1961-1999)* AWRENCE WAS born in 1961 in Matabeleland, Southern Rhodesia, 19 years before Zimbabwe emerged as an independent state. His early education was interrupted by the war of national liberation and as a consequence he started university at the age of 23. After a brilliant career as an undergraduate at the University of Zimbabwe, where he was awarded a first class degree and won a string of academic prizes, including the Joint Law Society Prize for the Best Bachelor of Law Final Year Student, he came to London to do an LLM. In London he specialised in international banking and finance and upon obtaining his LLM returned to Zimbabwe to take up a post of lecturer in law at the University of Zimbabwe. I met Lawrence in 1992 when he came to Warwick to do a PhD on land tenure in Zimbabwe and I had the privilege of being his supervisor. After completing his PhD, he was awarded a grant by the Ford Foundation to prepare his dissertation at the Land Tenure Centre of the University of Wis- consin-Madison. Characteristically, he concentrated all his energies in this project and his book A Matter of (In)Justice: Law, State and the Agrarian Question in Zimbabwe, was published in Harare in 1997 by SAPES Books. Lawrence was deeply committed to his intellectual work. His personal and emotional involvement in his research is reflected in his choice of topics. His research on the land tenure system in Zimbabwe was inspired by his experi- ence as a victim of colonialism and racism. His more recent work on govern- ance and financial regulation in Africa was prompted by his awareness of the shortcomings of the current neo-liberal model of development advocated by international financial institutions. On these and other topics, Lawrence had deep convictions which he expressed with clarity and passion, but never in a dogmatic or intolerant manner. Some years ago, in 1996, he was appointed Programme Legal Counsel at the International Development Institute, an intergovernmental organis- ation, based in Rome. At the institute, he was responsible for managing and Lawrence Tshuma was a member of the International Editorial Board of Social & Legal Studies at the time of his death. SOCIAL & LEGAL STUDIES 0964 6639 (200003) 9:1 Copyright 0 2000 SAGE Publications, London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi, Vol. 9(1), 5-6; 011670

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