The environmental law as it is known today is an amalgamation of common law and statutory principles. 1 Even before specific laws came into force, there were certain common law remedies against pollution. Common law is the body of customary law of England based upon judicial decisions and is embodied in the reports of decided cases. Common law had been administered by the common law courts of E...

Transitional justice has typically relied on a handful of mechanisms, including trials, truth commissions, and reparations programmes, in seeking justice after conflict. In many societies, however, these mechanisms have less salience and value than do traditional practices of justice. Often, this occurs in large part because these transitional justice mechanisms have been imported and the commu...

The standard account today of customary international law (CIL) is that it arises from the widespread and consistent practice of states followed out of a sense of legal obligation. Although commonly recited, this account is plagued by evidentiary, normative, and conceptual difficulties, and it has been subjected to increasing criticism in recent years. This paper posits a different account of C...

Customary law is defined as assets owned by the Indonesian nation and developing in society. However, existence of customary laws often questioned to what extent these can be applied. In several criminal cases Indonesia, regions still use system an alternative decisions because its role enforcement quite dominant. This study aims identify a modernization Indonesia. used descriptive analytic met...

This study analyses several aspects of incest as a sexual crime, well its law enforcement, by comparing criminal and Bugis customary law. normative was conducted examining primary secondary legal materials, which were then analysed qualitatively descriptively. The findings indicate that can occur in the form violence caused internal external factors, such psychological family condition. Incest ...