People's Law and state law

the Bellagio papers

Antony Allott, Gordon R. Woodman, Antony Allott, Gordon R. Woodman

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9783110131086
• eBook ISBN: 9783110866285
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Law Theory & Practice
• Index: Law

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Table of contents

• Introduction
• PART I INFORMAL SOCIAL CONTROL
• Introduction
• “Popular Law-Making in Western Society”
• “Cultural Ideology and Empirical Reality: Case Studies in Contemporary Law Management”
• “How the Qolla Handle Homicide: the Demifeud in Action”
• “Indigenous Law and Official Law in the Contemporary United States”
• “Intuitive Law versus Folk Law”
• PART II FOLK LAW IN STATE COURTS
• Introduction
• “The Use of Folk Law in West Sumatran State Courts”
• “Evolution of the Different Regimes of Customary Law in Ghana within the Framework of the Principle of Stare Decisis”
• “From Folk Law Towards Jurists’ Law: a Critical Review of the State Courts’ Practice Concerning Adat Law in Indonesia”
• “The sublety of Legal Change: a Lesson from Northern Zambia”
• “Folk Law in Official Courts of Turkey”
• “Customary Law, State Courts, and the Notion of Institutionalization of Norms in Ghana and Nigeria”
• PART III COMPETITION BETWEEN STATE AND UNOFFICIAL LAW
• Introduction
• “Popular Justice, Participatory Development and Power Politics: the Lok Adalat in Turmoil”
• “Some Comparative Generalizations about the Differential Use of State and Folk Institutions of Dispute Settlement”
• “The Channel of Official Law to Unofficial Law in Japan”
• “Four Laws of Interaction in Circumstances of Legal Pluralism: First Steps Towards and Explanatory Theory”
• “Justice Against the Law: Traditional and Modern Jurisdiction in Northern Ghana”
• “Some Preliminary Notes to the Socio-Legal Documentary Film: In Search of Justice: Different Levels of Dispute Settlement Among the Anufòm in North Togo”
• PART IV NEO-MARXIST INTERPRETATIONS OF FOLK LAW IN PLURALISTIC LEGAL SYSTEMS
• Introduction
• “Underdevelopment and the Plurality of Law”
• “Local Law in Black Africa: Contemporary Experiences of Folk Law Facing State and Capital in Senegal and Some Other Countries”
• “Folk Law’ and Historical Transitions: Some Conceptual Issues”
• PART V LEGAL POLICY
• Introduction
• “Informal Alternatives to Courts as a Mode of Legalizing Conflict”
• “Toward the Development of a Northwest Territories Law Reform Capability to Enable the Development of Proposals for New Legislation to Meet the Special Needs and Circumstances of Northern Peoples”
• “Alaskan Bush Justice: Legal Centralism Confronts Social Science Research and Village Alaska”
• “The Role of Traditional Inuit Measures for Social Control in Correctional Policy and Administration”
• “Australian Aboriginal Customary Law: Progress Report”
• “Recognition of Folk Institutions for Dispute-Settlement in Lombok, Indonesia”
• The Authors
• Note on the Commission on Folk Law and Legal Pluralism