The Best Customary Law Books 2024

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. 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

3. The Law of the Somalis: A Stable Foundation for Economic Development in the Horn of Africa (Paperback - Used) 156902250X 9781569022504

Detailing the striking features of Somali law - which is compensatory, rather than punitive - van Notten demonstrates how this legislature stands in line with the Latin and Medieval laws and English Common law. He delineates areas within Somali law that are in need of non-legislative change and shows clearly why any attempt to set up a democracy in Somalia would inevitably produce chaos.

Title: The Law of the Somalis: A Stable Foundation for Economic Development in the Horn of Africa ISBN10: 156902250X EAN: 9781569022504 Author: Notten, Michael Van 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.

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

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

Title: Legal Traditions of the World: Sustainable Diversity in Law ISBN10: 0199205418 EAN: 9780199205417 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.

5. Pre-Owned Customary International Law in Times of Fundamental Change: Recognizing Grotian Moments (Paperback) 110761032X 9781107610323

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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.

6. Racial Subordination in Latin America: The Role of the State, Customary Law, and the New Civil Rights Response (Paperback - Used) 1107695430 9781107695436

There are approximately 150 million people of African descent in Latin America yet Afro-descendants have been consistently marginalized as undesirable elements of the society. Latin America has nevertheless long prided itself on its absence of U.S.-styled state-mandated Jim Crow racial segregation laws. This book disrupts the traditional narrative of Latin America's legally benign racial past by comprehensively examining the existence of customary laws of racial regulation and the historic complicity of Latin American states in erecting and sustaining racial hierarchies. Tanya Kater Hern ndez is the first author to consider the salience of the customary law of race regulation for the contemporary development of racial equality laws across the region. Therefore, the book has a particular relevance for the contemporary U.S. racial context in which Jim Crow laws have long been abolished and a "post-racial" rhetoric undermines the commitment to racial equality laws and policies amidst a backdrop of continued inequality.

Title: Racial Subordination in Latin America: The Role of the State, Customary Law, and the New Civil Rights Response Book Format: Paperback ISBN10: 1107695430 EAN: 9781107695436 Genre: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations Author: Hernández, Tanya Katerí CONDITION - GOOD - USED - 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. Recovering Canada: The Resurgence of Indigenous Law (Paperback - Used) 0802085016 9780802085016

Canada is covered by a system of law and governance that largely obscures and ignores the presence of pre-existing Indigenous regimes. Indigenous law, however, has continuing relevance for both Aboriginal peoples and the Canadian state. In his in-depth examination of the continued existence and application of Indigenous legal values, John Borrows suggests how First Nations laws could be applied by Canadian courts, and tempers this by pointing out the many difficulties that would occur if the courts attempted to follow such an approach. By contrasting and comparing Aboriginal stories and Canadian case law, and interweaving political commentary, Borrows argues that there is a better way to constitute Aboriginal / Crown relations in Canada. He suggests that the application of Indigenous legal perspectives to a broad spectrum of issues that confront us as humans will help Canada recover from its colonial past, and help Indigenous people recover their country. Borrows concludes by demonstrating how Indigenous peoples' law could be more fully and consciously integrated with Canadian law to produce a society where two world views can co-exist and a different vision of the Canadian constitution and citizenship can be created.

Title: Recovering Canada: The Resurgence of Indigenous Law Book Format: Paperback ISBN10: 0802085016 EAN: 9780802085016 Genre: LAW / Indigenous Peoples Author: Borrows, John CONDITION - GOOD - USED - 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 Colonizing Hawai'i: The Cultural Power of Law (Paperback) 0691009325 9780691009322

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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.

9. Pre-Owned The Rule of the Clan: What an Ancient Form of Social Organization Reveals about the Future of Individual Freedom (Hardcover) 0374252815 9780374252816

Winner of the Grawemeyer Award For Ideas Improving World Order A lively, wide-ranging meditation on human development that offers surprising lessons for the future of modern individualism, The Rule of the Clan examines the constitutional principles and cultural institutions of kin-based societies, from medieval Iceland to modern Pakistan. Mark S. Weiner, an expert in constitutional law and legal history, shows us that true individual freedom depends on the existence of a robust state dedicated to the public interest. In the absence of a healthy state, he explains, humans naturally tend to create legal structures centered not on individuals but rather on extended family groups. The modern liberal state makes individualism possible by keeping this powerful drive in check--and we ignore the continuing threat to liberal values and institutions at our peril. At the same time, for modern individualism to survive, liberals must also acknowledge the profound social and psychological benefits the rule of the clan provides and recognize the loss humanity sustains in its transition to modernity. Masterfully argued and filled with rich historical detail, Weiner's investigation speaks both to modern liberal societies and to developing nations riven by "clannism," including Muslim societies in the wake of the Arab Spring.

Title: The Rule of the Clan: What an Ancient Form of Social Organization Reveals about the Future of Individual Freedom ISBN10: 0374252815 EAN: 9780374252816 Author: Weiner, Mark 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.

10. Pre-Owned Irish laws (Hardcover) 0862812291 9780862812294

As whimsical as the Irish themselves, these ancient Irish laws date back to the first century BC and are a testament not only to age-old traditions, but also to the Irish love of justice. Today these laws are appealing as much for their fair-mindedness as for their offbeat humor and naive charm.

Title: Irish laws ISBN10: 0862812291 EAN: 9780862812294 Author: Mary Dowling Daley 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.