Indigenous Customary Law and Norwegian Domestic Law: Scenes of a (Complementary or Mutually Exclusive) Marriage?

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...

Patient safety and surgical innovation–complementary or mutually exclusive?

Safety vs. innovation Safety and innovation are not and need not be antagonists, but synonyms. If innovation is driven by safety, we can hopefully accelerate the rate of innovation desperately needed in medicine. In the surgical microcosm, it is not infrequent to hear the voices of surgical conservatism question innovation: why change the current device or method? It is proven to work, it is ve...

Patient satisfaction and physician productivity: complementary or mutually exclusive?

Motivating physicians to increase productivity and maximize patient satisfaction may result in conflicted behavior, raising questions about whether one must be sacrificed for the other. To determine if high satisfaction (measured by Press Ganey patient satisfaction survey) can be achieved while maintaining high productivity (measured in McGladrey relative value units, MRVU), longitudinal data c...

The Emerging Customary Law of Space