The Future of African Customary Law
Title | The Future of African Customary Law PDF eBook |
Author | Jeanmarie Fenrich |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 563 |
Release | 2011-07-18 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1139497820 |
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.
The Future of African Customary Law
Title | The Future of African Customary Law PDF eBook |
Author | Jeanmarie Fenrich |
Publisher | |
Pages | 564 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Customary law |
ISBN | 9781139098694 |
"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. The Future of African Customary Law is intended to promote discussion and understanding of customary law and to explore its continued relevance in sub-Saharan Africa. This 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"--
The Future of African Customary Law in South Africa
Title | The Future of African Customary Law in South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | William Elias Huma |
Publisher | |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Customary law |
ISBN |
African Customary Law: An Introduction
Title | African Customary Law: An Introduction PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Onyango |
Publisher | African Books Collective |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2013-12-29 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9966031928 |
The author is a Don at the School of Law, University of Nairobi Kenya and a development consultant with various NGOs and other international bodies in Eastern Africa region and Italy. He is a researcher and writer of articles and texts on matters concerning law and culture. Dr. Onyango is an expert in modern legal science with wide knowledge of law ranging from comparative legal system, international public law, ethics, philosophy, theology, sociology, mass media and social realities today. He is currently teaching Social Foundations of Law, Customary Law, International Public Law and International Relations at the University of Nairobi and he is a part-time lecturer at St. Pauls University. Among his publication are Cultural Gap and Economic Crisis in Africa and, Dholuo Grammar for Beginners.
The Making of South African Legal Culture 1902-1936
Title | The Making of South African Legal Culture 1902-1936 PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Chanock |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 596 |
Release | 2001-03-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521791564 |
Martin Chanock's illuminating and definitive perspective on that development examines all areas of the law including criminal law and criminology; the Roman-Dutch law; the State's African law; and land, labour and 'rule of law' questions.
The Future of the Institution of Hereditary Rule and Customary Law in South Africa
Title | The Future of the Institution of Hereditary Rule and Customary Law in South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | R. S. Ndou |
Publisher | |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Customary law |
ISBN |
The Nature of African Customary Law
Title | The Nature of African Customary Law PDF eBook |
Author | Taslim Olawale Elias |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 1956 |
Genre | Customary law |
ISBN | 9780719002212 |