The Best Customary Law Books 2025

1. Pre-Owned Legal Traditions of the World: Sustainable Diversity of Law (Paperback) 0198765754 9780198765752

Written in a clear and accessible style, this new text provides a broader concept of comparative law, placing national laws in the wider context of legal traditions. All major legal traditions of the world are covered. The scope and clarity of this work will make it essential reading for students and practitioners of transnational law alike. In 1998 it won the Grand Prize of the International Academy of Comparative Law.

Title: Legal Traditions of the World: Sustainable Diversity of Law ISBN10: 0198765754 EAN: 9780198765752 Author: Glenn, H. Patrick CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

2. Pre-Owned Burying SM: The Politics of Knowledge and the Sociology of Power in Africa (Paperback) 0435080636 9780435080631

A look at the struggle between the distinguished Kenyan lawyer S.M. Otieno's Kikuyu widow and his Luo clan. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover, dust jacket may not be included, minimal wear to binding, most of the pages undamaged(e.g., minimal creases or tears), highlighting / underlining acceptable on books as long as the text is readable and markings are not excessive, no missing pages. May be a former library book, with usual treatments(e.g., mylar covers, call stickers, stamps, card pockets, barcodes, or remainder marks). Extra components, such as CDs, DVDs, figurines, or access codes are not included. ISBN: 9780435080631 ISBN10: 0435080636 Contributors: Odhiambo, Atieno, Cohen, David W.,

Title: Burying SM: The Politics of Knowledge and the Sociology of Power in Africa Book Format: Paperback ISBN10: 0435080636 EAN: 9780435080631 Genre: LAW / Customary Author: Cohen, David W.; Odhiambo, Atieno Pre-Owned Condition- Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

3. Pre-Owned Legal Traditions of the World: Sustainable Diversity in Law (Paperback) 0199205418 9780199205417

CONDITION â USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover, dust jacket may not be included, minimal wear to binding, most of the pages undamaged(e.g., minimal creases or tears), highlighting / underlining acceptable on books as long as the text is readable and markings are not excessive, no missing pages. May be a former library book, with usual treatments(e.g., mylar covers, call stickers, stamps, card pockets, barcodes, or remainder marks). Extra components, such as CDs, DVDs, figurines, or access codes are not included. ISBN: 9780199205417 ISBN10: 0199205418 Contributors: Glenn, H. Patrick,

ISBN: 9780199205417 Condition: Pre-Owned: Good Trade paperback 3rd Revised ed. Language: English Pages: 422 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 422 p. This prize-winning work offers a major new means of conceptualizing law and legal relations across the world. National laws are placed in the broader context of major legal traditions, those of chthonic (or indigenous) law, talmudic law, civil law, islamic law, common law, hindu law and Asian law. Each tradition is examined in terms of its institutions and substantive law, its founding concepts and methods, its attitude towards the concept of change, and its teaching on relations with other traditions and peoples. Legal traditions are explained in terms of multivalent and non-conflictual forms of logic and thought. This book will be invaluable to law students and lawyers engaged in comparative or transnational work, historians, social scientists, and all those interested in the legal traditions that underpin the world's major societies.

4. Pre-Owned Land, Power & Custom: Controversies Generated by South Africa's Communal Land Rights Act [With DVD ROM] (Paperback) 0821418734 9780821418734

CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover, dust jacket may not be included, minimal wear to binding, most of the pages undamaged(e.g., minimal creases or tears), highlighting / underlining acceptable on books as long as the text is readable and markings are not excessive, no missing pages. May be a former library book, with usual treatments(e.g., mylar covers, call stickers, stamps, card pockets, barcodes, or remainder marks). Extra components, such as CDs, DVDs, figurines, or access codes are not included. ISBN: 9780821418734 ISBN10: 0821418734 Contributors: Cousins, Ben, Claassens, Aninka,

Title: Land, Power & Custom: Controversies Generated by South Africa's Communal Land Rights Act [With DVD ROM] Book Format: Paperback ISBN10: 0821418734 EAN: 9780821418734 CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

5. Outlawed Pigs: Law, Religion, and Culture in Israel, (Hardcover)

The prohibition against pigs is one of the most powerful symbols of Jewish culture and collective memory. Outlawed Pigs explores how the historical sensitivity of Jews to the pig prohibition was incorporated into Israeli law and culture. Daphne Barak-Erez specifically traces the course of two laws, one that authorized municipalities to ban the possession and trading in pork within their jurisdiction and another law that forbids pig breeding throughout Israel, except for areas populated mainly by Christians. Her analysis offers a comprehensive, decade-by-decade discussion of the overall relationship between law and culture since the inception of the Israeli nation-state. By examining ever-fluctuating Israeli popular opinion on Israel's two laws outlawing the trade and possession of pigs, Barak-Erez finds an interesting and accessible way to explore the complex interplay of law, religion, and culture in modern Israel, and more specifically a microcosm for the larger question of which lies more at the foundation of Israeli state law: religion or cultural tradition.

Outlawed Pigs: Law, Religion, and Culture in Israel, (Hardcover) Author: University of Wisconsin Press ISBN: 9780299221607 Format: Hardcover Publication Date: 2007-06-05 Page Count: 200

6. Pre-Owned Colonizing Hawai'i: The Cultural Power of Law (Paperback) 0691009325 9780691009322

9780691009322. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 432. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 432 p. Contains: Maps. Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History, 10. How does law transform family, sexuality, and community in the fractured social world characteristic of the colonizing process? The law was a cornerstone of the so-called civilizing process of nineteenth-century colonialism. It was simultaneously a means of transformation and a marker of the seductive idea of civilization. Sally Engle Merry reveals how, in Hawai'i, indigenous Hawaiian law was displaced by a transplanted Anglo-American law as global movements of capitalism, Christianity, and imperialism swept across the islands. The new law brought novel systems of courts, prisons, and conceptions of discipline and dramatically changed the marriage patterns, work lives, and sexual conduct of the indigenous people of Hawai'i.

Title: Colonizing Hawai'i: The Cultural Power of Law Book Format: Paperback ISBN10: 0691009325 EAN: 9780691009322 Author: Merry, Sally Engle CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

7. Pre-Owned Navajo Courts and Navajo Common Law: A Tradition of Tribal Self-Governance (Paperback) 0816665362 9780816665365

Navajo Courts and Navajo Common Law: A Tradition of Tribal Self-Governance by Austin, Raymond D.

Title: Navajo Courts and Navajo Common Law: A Tradition of Tribal Self-Governance Book Format: Paperback ISBN10: 0816665362 EAN: 9780816665365 Genre: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies Author: Austin, Raymond D. Pre-Owned Condition- Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

8. Pre-Owned Law as Process: An Anthropological Approach (Hardcover) 0710087586 9780710087584

CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover, dust jacket may not be included, minimal wear to binding, most of the pages undamaged(e.g., minimal creases or tears), highlighting / underlining acceptable on books as long as the text is readable and markings are not excessive, no missing pages. May be a former library book, with usual treatments(e.g., mylar covers, call stickers, stamps, card pockets, barcodes, or remainder marks). Extra components, such as CDs, DVDs, figurines, or access codes are not included. ISBN: 9780710087584 ISBN10: 0710087586 Contributors: Moore, Sally F.,

Title: Law as Process: An Anthropological Approach ISBN10: 0710087586 EAN: 9780710087584 Genre: LAW / Customary Author: Moore, Sally Falk Pre-Owned Condition- Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

9. Pre-Owned Legal Traditions of the World: Sustainable Diversity in Law (Paperback) 0199260885 9780199260881

Legal Traditions of the World: Sustainable Diversity in Law by Glenn, H. Patrick

Title: Legal Traditions of the World: Sustainable Diversity in Law ISBN10: 0199260885 EAN: 9780199260881 Genre: LAW / Comparative Author: Glenn, H. Patrick Pre-Owned Condition- Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

10. Pre-Owned Customary International Law in Times of Fundamental Change : Recognizing Grotian Moments (Paperback) 9781107610323

This is the first book to explore the concept of 'Grotian Moments'. Named for Hugo Grotius, whose masterpiece De jure belli ac pacis helped marshal in the modern system of international law, it examines the historic underpinnings of the Grotian Moment concept, provides a theoretical framework for testing its existence and application, and analyzes six case studies. Contributor: Michael P. Scharf

Title: Customary International Law in Times of Fundamental Change: Recognizing Grotian Moments Book Format: Paperback ISBN10: 110761032X EAN: 9781107610323 Author: Scharf, Michael P. CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.