Ambushing Basotho Customary Marriage

The Problem of Customary Marriage and the Solution of Temporary Marriage

Customary marriage (nikāḥ ‘urfī)—non-official married life of a couple—is a new phenomenon increasingly spreading throughout the Arab world. Legal and social consequences of customary marriage have led many socio-jurisprudential scholars to forbid all its varieties. The strategy has, nevertheless, failed to restrain the spread of this type of marriage. In this paper, I argue that one f...

Sponsorship ambushing in sport

Ambushing occurs when a company that has no formal rights as an official sponsor, associates its own brand with a sport event with the intention of communicating the false impression that it is a sponsor. The article identifies and discusses seven potential ambush opportunities. The extent to which ambushing is effective is reviewed. Official sponsors receive little legal protection from ambush...

The Formation of Customary Law

Are Usual and Customary Charges Reasonable?

An editorial about the use of usual and customary charges for out-of-network benefit determinations.

The Emerging Customary Law of Space