The Future of African Customary Law
The Future of African Customary Law

Author: Jeanmarie Fenrich

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-07-18

Total Pages: 563

ISBN-13: 1139497820

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This book promotes discussion and understanding of customary law and explores its continued relevance in sub-Saharan Africa. It 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.

African Customary Law
African Customary Law

Author: Peter Onyango

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789966031341

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Introduction -- The nature of African customary law -- Nature, characteristics, limits -- Praxis of customary law -- The use of customary law in other systems -- Constitutional analysis of customary law -- Genesis and upheavals of customary law -- Quest for integrated system -- Quest for African jurisprudence -- Determining the future -- Critique -- Protagonist in the primitive law -- Summary and conclusion.

Customary Law Ascertained Volume 3
Customary Law Ascertained Volume 3

Author: Hinz, Manfred O.

Publisher: University of Namibia Press

Published: 2016-01-29

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13: 9991642129

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Customary Law Ascertained Volume 3 is the third of a three-volume series in which traditional authorities in Namibia present the customary laws of their communities. It contains the laws of the Nama, Ovaherero, Ovambanderu, and San communities. Volume 2 contained the customary laws of the Bakgalagari, the Batswana ba Namibia and the Damara communities. Recognised traditional authorities in Namibia are expected to ascertain the customary law applicable in their respective communities after consultation with the members of that community, and to note the most important aspect of such law in written form. This series is the result of that process, It has been facilitated but the Human Rights and Documentation Centre of the University of Namibia, through the former Dean of the Law Faculty, Professor Manfred Hinz.

New Directions in Comparative Law
New Directions in Comparative Law

Author: Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1849803218

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This in-depth book explores the changing role of comparative law in an era of Europeanisation and globalisation. It explains how national law coexists and interacts with supranational and international law and how legal rules are produced by a variety of institutions alongside and beyond the nation-state. The book combines both theoretical and practically oriented contributions in the areas of law and development, comparative constitutional law, as well as comparative private and economic law. It offers a plurality of perspectives on the theory and methods of comparative law as a legal discipline, but also on comparative law when concretely applied in projects of legal aid, harmonisation of law and legal reform. Offering a multi-disciplinary perspective, this book will appeal to researchers and policymakers in international organisations. It will also serve as a valuable resource for advanced level courses on comparative law, and on law reform and legal aid.

Human Rights and Traditional Justice Systems in Africa
Human Rights and Traditional Justice Systems in Africa

Author:

Publisher: UN

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 79

ISBN-13: 9789211542165

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This publication defines the nature and characteristics of traditional justice systems, including issues related to jurisdiction, community involvement, composition, and a primary focus on restorative justice.

Law, Custom, and Social Order
Law, Custom, and Social Order

Author: Martin Chanock

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780325000169

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This book explores the historical formation during the colonial period of that part of African law know as customary law.