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... and argued that it was a relic of colonialism that had only served British interests. When soldiers took power, they changed course, embracing forms of custom that their civilian predecessors had shunned. They took customary law’s African characteristics at face value, arguing that they could be the building...

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... language of the secular state. The Ga community defended the ritual ban as a cultural heritage protected under customary law and Pentecostal/Charismatic Christians insisted on their constitutional right to religion. Although in practice the label of culture allowed the Ga community more freedom to impose...

..., but it was immediately placed in the service of the Ga community to help manage the ban on drumming. Strictly speaking, the activities of the Task Force are unconstitutional because they elevate customary law above statutory law, even though customary law is constitutionally subordinate. The chapter argues...

... and argued that it was a relic of colonialism that had only served British interests. When soldiers took power, they changed course, embracing forms of custom that their civilian predecessors had shunned. They took customary law’s African characteristics at face value, arguing that they could be the building...

... adapt to life under a legal system that was not designed for them? Who among them supported it, and who chafed against it? Martial law established a third path in Nigeria’s already plural legal system, running perpendicular to the common law and customary courts that Nigerians already knew well...

... the rain, Olivera points out, was considered a resource to be commodified by Law 2029, the neoliberal legislation on drinking water and sanitation. According to Olivera, powerful corporate interests, especially foreign ones, sought to appropriate public goods for private profit, and the Bolivian government...

... explores the tradition of clemency in the context of the Jim Crow South with a focus on Mississippi and Louisiana, where clemencies were routine. Through a discussion of customary practices that regularly shortened the sentences of even those convicted of murder, as well as an analysis of clemency...

... was so well established that it would be impossible to eradicate the crop completely. The 1988 Law on Coca and Controlled Substances (Law 1008), written with United States oversight, established a limit on traditional coca production and declared all the rest to be “in excess” and destined for drug...