People's Law and state law : : the Bellagio papers / / ed. by Antony Allott, Gordon R. Woodman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Law - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: Abel, Richard L.,; Allott, Antony,; Alum Jr., Rolando A.,; Baxi, Upendra,; Bayly, John U.,; Benda-Beckmann, Franz von,; Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von,; Bolton, Ralph,; Chiba, Masaji,; Conn, Stephen,; Finkler, Harold W.,; Fitzpatrick, Peter,; Galanter, Marc,; Griffiths, J.,; Kludze, A.K.P.,; Koesnoe, Mohammed,; Le Roy, Etienne,; Podgorecki, Adam,; Rouveroy van Nieuwaal, E.A.B. van,; Schott, Rüdiger,; Singer, Norman J.,; Snyder, Francis G.,; Starr, June,; Strijbosch, F.,; Woodman, Gordon R.,
• HerausgeberIn: Allott, Antony,; Woodman, Gordon R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1985
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (354 p.) :; 1 frontispiece

Table of Contents

I-VIII -- Introduction by Antony Allott and Gordon R. Woodman -- 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” -- Kirby, Justice M.D.“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