Legal Pluralism & Women's Rights: A Study in Post-Colonial Tanzania

The bureaucratic performance of development in colonial and post- colonial Tanzania

This article examines change and continuity in development measures concerning cassava in a poor Tanzanian region over a period of 80 years. It shows ambivalent and dubious ways of reasoning about the causes of and solutions to poverty related to these measures, and argues that the persistence of such problematic arguments is understandable if one considers their political usefulness. Local off...

The Internet, Legal Regulation and Legal Pluralism

Considerable academic effort is being expended in considering how to regulate various activities on the internet, particularly those as relate to obscene material, breaches of privacy and challenges to intellectual property rights. Post and Johnson (1997) offer the following solution which is typical; 'We believe that the most obvious answer to this question -existing territorial sovereigns -ma...

From Needs to Rights—A Socio-Legal Account of Bridging Moral and Legal Universalism via Ethical Pluralism

The question of the universality of human rights has much in common with the question of the universality of ethics. In the form of a multidisciplinary reflexive survey, the aim of this article is to show how human rights discourses derive from more basic principles related to basic needs. These needs are the universal grammar for moral principles, which will be distinguished from ethical norms...

network of phonological rules in lori dialect of andimeshk: a study within the framework of post-generative approach.

پژوهش حاضر ارائه ی توصیفی است از نظام آوایی گویش لری شهر اندیمشک، واقع در شمال غربی استان خوزستان. چهارچوب نظری این پژوهش، انگاره ی پسازایشی جزءمستقل می باشد. این پایان نامه شامل موارد زیر است: -توصیف آواهای این گویش به صورت آواشناسی سنتی و در قالب مختصه های زایشی ممیز، همراه با آوانوشته ی تفصیلی؛ -توصیف نظام آوایی گویش لری و قواعد واجی آن در چهارچوب انگاره ی پسازایشی جزءمستقل و معرفی برهم کن...

The Evolution of Global Legal Pluralism