Law and Development, and Legal Pluralism in Ethiopia
Title | Law and Development, and Legal Pluralism in Ethiopia PDF eBook |
Author | Justice and Legal System Research Institute (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789994498338 |
Legal Pluralism in Ethiopia
Title | Legal Pluralism in Ethiopia PDF eBook |
Author | Susanne Epple |
Publisher | transcript Verlag |
Pages | 415 |
Release | 2020-07-31 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3839450217 |
Being a home to more than 80 ethnic groups, Ethiopia has to balance normative diversity with efforts to implement state law across its territory. This volume explores the co-existence of state, customary, and religious legal forums from the perspective of legal practitioners and local justice seekers. It shows how the various stakeholders' use of negotiation, and their strategic application of law can lead to unwanted confusion, but also to sustainable conflict resolution, innovative new procedures and hybrid norms. The book thus generates important knowledge on the conditions necessary for stimulating a cooperative co-existence of different legal systems.
Proceedings of the National Conference on Law and Development
Title | Proceedings of the National Conference on Law and Development PDF eBook |
Author | Seble G/Giorgis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 93 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Legal Pluralism in Contemporary Ethiopia
Title | Legal Pluralism in Contemporary Ethiopia PDF eBook |
Author | Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam |
Publisher | LAP Lambert Academic Publishing |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Ethiopia |
ISBN | 9783838356174 |
This is a book about legal pluralism, federalism, and human rights. It contends that legal pluralism is an important federalist policy in a deeply divided society, particularly Ethiopia. In so doing, it tells the story of the suppression of the diverse customary and religious laws in the country s recent past as part of the larger history of ethnic homogenization and state centralization. Since 1957, customary and religious laws had been alienated from the state legal system by virtue of the great influx of Western transplants providing the setting for competition between legal universalism and legal pluralism. In 1995, legal pluralism triumphs over legal universalism, as the 1995 FDRE Constitution recognizes the validity of customary and religious laws in personal and family matters. This book analyzes the salient elements of legal pluralism in Ethiopia, argues for redrawing the frontiers of formal legal pluralism in such a manner as to include criminal matters, and points out the challenges. The book throws light on this new development, and should be useful to academic lawyers and non-lawyers or anyone else who is interested in Ethiopian legal and political development.
Legal Pluralism and Development
Title | Legal Pluralism and Development PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Z. Tamanaha |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2012-05-28 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1107019400 |
Previous efforts at legal development have focused almost exclusively on state legal systems, many of which have shown little improvement over time. Recently, organizations engaged in legal development activities have begun to pay greater attention to the implications of local, informal, indigenous, religious, and village courts or tribunals, which often are more efficacious than state legal institutions, especially in rural communities. Legal pluralism is the term applied to these situations because these institutions exist alongside official state legal systems, usually in a complex or uncertain relationship. Although academics, especially legal anthropologists and sociologists, have discussed legal pluralism for decades, their work has not been consulted in the development context. Similarly, academics have failed to benefit from the insights of development practitioners. This book brings together, in a single volume, contributions from academics and practitioners to explore the implications of legal pluralism for legal development. All of the practitioners have extensive experience in development projects, the academics come from a variety of backgrounds, and most have written extensively on legal pluralism and on development.
The Challenges of a Society in Transition
Title | The Challenges of a Society in Transition PDF eBook |
Author | Yohannes Gebremedhin |
Publisher | The Red Sea Press |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9781569022153 |
Human Rights and Development
Title | Human Rights and Development PDF eBook |
Author | Eva Brems |
Publisher | Hotei Publishing |
Pages | 413 |
Release | 2015-02-04 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9004280251 |
The papers by international and Ethiopian scholars included in Human Rights and Development: Legal Perspectives from and for Ethiopia focus on the interconnectedness between the protection of human rights and the achievement of development. The book adds to the international debate by providing a unique insight into the Ethiopian perspective on the nexus between rights and development and by discussing how this nexus manifests itself in the Ethiopian context. The comparative and international frameworks and examples constitute a valuable resource for the debate on human rights and development in Ethiopia, which is currently taking place in the context of the developmental state approach pursued by the Ethiopian government.