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‘Land Complaints’ in Bizana, c.1940–1963: Living Customary Law in an Administrative Archive

Journal of Southern African Studies, 2021
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Articulations of Aboriginal Title, Indigenous Rights, and Living Customary Law in South Africa

Social and Legal Studies, 2018
Daniel Huizenga
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The distortion of the meaning of bride wealth: significance for the evolution of living customary law in southern Nigeria

2015
Includes bibliographical references.
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Pushing the boundaries of customary law jurisprudence in Botswana: social science and the law in the case ofRamantele vs. Mmusi

Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 2016
Tara Weinberg
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Indigenous peoples, customary law and human rights – why living law matters, by Brendan Tobin

The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 2015
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Recent Changes in Women's Land Rights and Contested Customary Law in South Africa

Journal of Agrarian Change, 2013
Aninka Claassens
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Using Customary International Law to Improve Women’s Lives

2017
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Customary law and the joys of statelessness: idealised traditions versus Somali realities

Journal of Eastern African Studies, 2013
GÜNTHER Schlee
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Judicial recognition of living customary law in the context of women's matrimonial property rights in South-East Nigeria

The interaction of customary law with state law raises challenges for policy-makers in postcolonial societies. This study contends that these challenges are primarily caused by state recognition of customary law without proper attention to how people adapt it to modern conditions vastly different from its agrarian origins.
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The South African action for adultery - common law, customary law, and constitutional perspectives

International Journal of Private Law, 2017
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