Spaces of Law and Custom

ISBN-13: 9780367344498 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 202 str.

Edoardo Frezet; Marc Goetzmann; Luke Mason

Opis

This collection brings together a carefully curated selection of researchers from law, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, history, social ontology and international relations, in order to examine how law and custom interact within specific material and spatial contexts.

Spis treści

Introduction Part 1: Normative Spaces: Between Custom and Law 1. The Germ of Law (Christoph Kletzer) 2. The Ontology of Custom (Corrado Roversi) 3. Customary Law and Oral Law: an Impossible Equation? (Jean-Louis Halpérin) 4. The Legal Constitution of Custom: What the History of the Idea of Labour Law Teaches us about How Lawyers Should Understand Custom-Like Practices (Luke Mason) 5. The Hidden Structures of Company Customs (Olimpia Loddo) Part 2: Customary Law in Post-Colonial Spaces 6. Legal Regimes and The Structuration of Space (Marie Mellac) 7. The Building Up of Customary Land Law in New Caledonia (Pierre-Yves Le Meur) 8. Custom, Law and Social Change in New Caledonia (Oona Le Meur) 9. A Customary Law Written Down, Confronting State Law: The Case of the Rwa in Tanzania (Catherine Baroin) Part 3: Customary Law, Land and Property 10. The ‘Law From Below’, an Anthropological Approach to Custom and Customary Land Law (Jean-Pierre Jacob) 11. Customary Law, Anarchic Orders and Property Rights (Marc Goetzmann) 12. Property, Spatial Status and Boundaries: Agreement and Conflicts, Examples from the French Provence From the Ancien Régime to Now (Ada Acovitsioti-Hameau and Philippe Hameau) 13. Land Law and Irrigation in the Mountains of North Vietnam: Diversity of Social Regulation Systems, Between the Legal and the Customary (Emmanuel Pannier).