F O V Acheson and Maori Customary Law

The Formation of Customary Law

Islamic Law , Customary Law , and Afghan Informal Justice

This report is part of the United States Institute of Peace’s (USIP) ongoing effort to understand the pluralist legal system of Afghanistan. It examines, compares, and contrasts Islamic law with traditional forms of justice in an attempt to elucidate how such rule of law approaches interact as well as provide a fuller understanding of each system to better guide rule of law practice, policy, an...

The Emerging Customary Law of Space

The Political Economy of “Aboriginal Customary Law”

Discussions about aboriginal-non-aboriginal relations in Canada have stressed the need to recognize “aboriginal customary law” in self-government arrangements. It is maintained that many aspects of “native law” differ radically from the legal systems that emerged in European countries, and so imposing Canadian conceptions of law on aboriginal communities is an obstacle to native self-determinat...

Appendix F Decomposition of Tensor Spaces for O ( V ) and

In this appendix we complete the results of Chapter 10 concerning the decomposition of tensor space under the action of the orthogonal group or the symplectic group. Following ideas of Weyl [7], we decompose the full tensor space into spaces of partially harmonic tensors. This is the full tensor generalization of the decompositions of the algebras of symmetric tensors and skew-symmetric tensors...