UID:
almafu_9959227191802883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xvii, 544 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-139-09736-9
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1-107-21300-2
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0-511-84429-8
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1-139-10072-6
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1-139-10138-2
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1-139-09869-1
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1-139-09936-1
Inhalt:
Customary laws and traditional institutions in Africa constitute comprehensive legal systems that regulate the entire spectrum of activities from birth to death. Once the sole source of law, customary rules now exist in the context of pluralist legal systems with competing bodies of domestic constitutional law, statutory law, common law and international human rights treaties. This book promotes discussion and understanding of customary law and explores its continued relevance in sub-Saharan Africa. The volume considers the characteristics of customary law and efforts to ascertain and codify customary law, and how this body of law differs in content, form and status from legislation and common law. It also addresses a number of substantive areas of customary law including the role and power of traditional authorities; customary criminal law; customary land tenure, property rights and intestate succession; and the relationship between customary law, human rights and gender equality.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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A survey of customary laws in Africa in search of lessons for the future /
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The future of living customary law in African legal systems in the twenty-first century and beyond, with special reference to South Africa /
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The future of customary law in Africa /
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The quest for customary law in African state courts /
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The withering province of customary law in Kenya : a case of design or indifference? /
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Putting old wine in new wine skins : the customary code of Lerotholi and justice administration in Lesotho /
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Traditional authorities : custodians of customary law development? /
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Engaging legal dualism : paralegal organizations and customary law in Sierra Leone and Liberia /
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The future of customary law in Ghana /
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Traditional courts in South Africa in the twenty-first century /
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Customary law and chieftainship in twenty-first century Botswana /
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Traditional institutions and governance in modern African democracies : history, challenges, and opportunities in Ghana /
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Entrapment or freedom : enforcing customary property rights regimes in common-law Africa /
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Romancing customary tenure : challenges and prospects for the neo-liberal suitor /
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Reform of the South African customary law of succession : final nails in the customary law coffin? /
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Customary crinimal law in the South African legal system /
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Gacaca in Rwanda : customary law in case of genocide /
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Customary law, gender equality, and the family : the promise and limits of a choice paradigm /
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African customary law and women's human rights in Uganda /
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Women's rights, customary law and the promise of the protocol on the rights of women in Africa /
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From contemporary African customary laws to indigenous African law : identifying ancient African human rights and good governance sensitive principles as a tool to promote culturally meaningful socio-legal reforms /
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-107-62504-1
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-521-11853-0
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Rechtswissenschaft
Schlagwort(e):
Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511844294
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