From Customary Law to Popular Justice

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 Formation of Customary Law

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...

Popular opposition to the 1834 Poor Law

JOHN KNOTT, Popular opposition to the 1834 Poor Law, London and Sydney, Croom Helm, 1986, 8vo, pp. 284, £19.95. Many distinct advances in scholarship have recently converged to re-emphasize the centrality of the Poor Law to the social history of English medicine. It has lately become clear, for the first time, just how extensive were disbursements for sick paupers under the parochial system of ...