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Title: | Customary justice: perspectives on legal empowerment |
Editors: | Ubink, Janine McInerney, Thomas |
Year: | 2011 |
Issue: | 3-2011 |
Pages: | 185 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Legal and governance reform |
City of publisher: | Rome |
Publisher: | International Development Law Organization |
ISBN: | 8896155061; 9788896155066 |
Geographic terms: | Africa Eritrea Liberia Namibia |
Subjects: | access to justice customary law legal reform codification |
Abstract: | This edited volume considers the possibilities for customary legal empowerment, examining change processes in customary justice systems and the role these systems can and do play in the legal empowerment of marginalized groups and individuals. Some chapters focus on the possible involvement of donors, others focus largely on domestic actors, viz. governments, traditional authorities and customary justice users. The contributions analyse both intracommunal power relations and the institutional linkages and relationships between customary and State justice systems, in relation to norms, dispute resolution mechanisms and administrative fora. Three chapters deal specifically with an African country: Policy proposals for justice reform in Liberia: opportunities under the current legal framework to expand access to justice (Amanda C. Rawls) - Ensuring access to justice through community courts in Eritrea (Senai W. Andemariam) - Stating the customary: an innovative approach to the locally legitimate recording of customary law in Namibia (Janine Ubink). [ASC Leiden abstract] |