Indigenous Customary Law in a Civil Law Context: Latin America and the Chilean Case

The Formation of Customary Law

Reproduction and the Rule of Law in Latin America

When Carmen Guadalupe Vasquez was rushed to [the] hospital after giving birth to a stillborn baby boy, the doctors first treated her life-threatening bleeding and then called the police, who handcuffed her to the bed. In El Salvador, where all abortion is illegal and emergency wards are turned into crime scenes, the confused, weak, and desperately ill 18-year-old maid was placed under investiga...

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...

A Review on "Civil Law in Current Legal System"

بحث تنقیح قوانین و مقررات، از مباحثی است که درحال حاضر محافل علمی را بیش از پیش به خود مشغول کرده؛ و یکی از مباحث مهم تنقیح قوانین و مقررات، بررسی و تشخیص«نسخ ضمنی» مصوبات است. در این مقاله به گوشه‌هایی از مبحث نسخ (آن هم نه نسخ و تغییرات ضمنی، بلکه نسخ و تغییرات صریح)، اکتفا می‌شود. شاید تصور شود که نسخ، اصلاح و الحاق صریح معلوم است و نیازی به بیان آن نیست، اتفاقاً در این تحقیق، دایرة بحث، بیش...

Religion, Politics and Law in 19th Century Latin America

When revolutions for independence broke out, religious life in the Spanish American world was ruled by the Indian patronage regime [patronato], which gave the monarch tight control over ecclesiastical institutions. Patronage included, among many other prerogatives, presenting candidates to the pope, appointing parish priests and doctrine teachers, the right to allow or deny the dissemination of...