Customary Law In The Modern World

Author : Francis Deng
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135255865
Total Pages : 681 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Customary Law in the Modern World written by Francis Deng and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-10-16 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Customary Law in the Modern World is the study of a coherent and well-established legal system, which is now operating in the context of a modern nation-state and therefore poised between remaining relevant and the threat of marginalization. Focusing on Sudan, the author places customary law in its historical and cultural context, analyzing the fundamental and traditional values that underlie customary law and the impact of the war between the North and the South that lasted intermittently for half a century. He deals with the substance of customary law, covering a wide variety of areas: family law, property law, torts and criminal liability. Drawing on interviews conducted with judges, legislators and practicing lawyers on customary law and its future in the modern context, the book challenges the development of customary law to build on the positives of tradition and the reform of its shortcomings, particularly in the areas of human rights, gender equality and the protection of children. This book fills a gap in the literature on customary law, and will be of great interest to anyone interested in law, anthropology and politics.

Author : Charles Phineas Sherman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Law in the Modern World written by Charles Phineas Sherman and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Amanda Perreau-Saussine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139463217
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Customary Law written by Amanda Perreau-Saussine and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-17 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some legal rules are not laid down by a legislator but grow instead from informal social practices. In contract law, for example, the customs of merchants are used by courts to interpret the provisions of business contracts; in tort law, customs of best practice are used by courts to define professional responsibility. Nowhere are customary rules of law more prominent than in international law. The customs defining the obligations of each State to other States and, to some extent, to its own citizens, are often treated as legally binding. However, unlike natural law and positive law, customary law has received very little scholarly analysis. To remedy this neglect, a distinguished group of philosophers, historians and lawyers has been assembled to assess the nature and significance of customary law. The book offers fresh insights on this neglected and misunderstood form of law.

Author : Jeanmarie Fenrich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139497820
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of African Customary Law written by Jeanmarie Fenrich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-18 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Mary Arden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198755848
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Common Law and Modern Society written by Mary Arden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law is a lasting social institution, but it must also be responsive to change. In this volume Mary Arden draws upon her experience to examine how judge-made law adapts to the evolving demands of society, how law reform works in practice, and the future of the judiciary in our diverse modern culture.

Author : Jean D'Aspremont
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192843907
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Discourse on Customary International Law written by Jean D'Aspremont and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book guides the reader through an analysis of eight distinct performances at work in the discourse on customary international law. One of its key claims is that customary international law is not the surviving trace of an ancient law-making mechanism that used to be found in traditional societies. Indeed, as is shown throughout, customary international law is anything but ancient, and there is hardly any doctrine of international law that contains so many of the features of modern thinking. It is also argued that, contrary to mainstream opinion, customary international law is in fact shaped by texts, and originates from a textual environment"--Page 4 de la couverture.

Author : Francis Deng
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415846905
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Customary Law in the Modern World written by Francis Deng and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Customary Law in the Modern World is the study of a coherent and well-established legal system, which is now operating in the context of a modern nation-state and therefore poised between remaining relevant and the threat of marginalization. Focusing on Sudan, the author places customary law in its historical and cultural context, analyzing the fundamental and traditional values that underlie customary law and the impact of the war between the North and the South that lasted intermittently for half a century. He deals with the substance of customary law, covering a wide variety of areas: family law, property law, torts and criminal liability. Drawing on interviews conducted with judges, legislators and practicing lawyers on customary law and its future in the modern context, the book challenges the development of customary law to build on the positives of tradition and the reform of its shortcomings, particularly in the areas of human rights, gender equality and the protection of children. This book fills a gap in the literature on customary law, and will be of great interest to anyone interested in law, anthropology and politics.

Author : Charles Phineas Sherman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Law in the Modern World: History of Roman law and its descent into English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and other modern law written by Charles Phineas Sherman and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David H. Ott
Publisher : Pitman Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public International Law in the Modern World written by David H. Ott and published by Pitman Publishing. This book was released on 1987 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas J. McSweeney
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198845456
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Priests of the Law written by Thomas J. McSweeney and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Priests of the Law tells the story of the first people in the history of the common law to think of themselves as legal professionals. In the middle decades of the thirteenth century, a group of justices working in the English royal courts spent a great deal of time thinking and writing about what it meant to be a person who worked in the law courts. This book examines the justices who wrote the treatise known as Bracton. Written and re-written between the 1220s and the 1260s, Bracton is considered one of the great treatises of the early common law and is still occasionally cited by judges and lawyers when they want to make the case that a particular rule goes back to the beginning of the common law. This book looks to Bracton less for what it can tell us about the law of the thirteenth century, however, than for what it can tell us about the judges who wrote it. The judges who wrote Bracton - Martin of Pattishall, William of Raleigh, and Henry of Bratton - were some of the first people to work full-time in England's royal courts, at a time when there was no recourse to an obvious model for the legal professional. They found one in an unexpected place: they sought to clothe themselves in the authority and prestige of the scholarly Roman-law tradition that was sweeping across Europe in the thirteenth century, modelling themselves on the jurists of Roman law who were teaching in European universities. In Bracton and other texts they produced, the justices of the royal courts worked hard to ensure that the nascent common-law tradition grew from Roman Law. Through their writing, this small group of people, working in the courts of an island realm, imagined themselves to be part of a broader European legal culture. They made the case that they were not merely servants of the king: they were priests of the law.