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This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Frontmatter -- Introduction by Antony Allott and Gordon R. Woodman -- PART I INFORMAL SOCIAL CONTROL -- Introduction / Griffiths, J. -- 'Popular Law-Making in Western Society' / Allott, Antony -- 'Cultural Ideology and Empirical Reality: Case Studies in Contemporary Law Management' / Alum Jr., Rolando A. -- 'How the Qolla Handle Homicide: the Demifeud in Action' / Bolton, Ralph -- 'Indigenous Law and Official Law in the Contemporary United States' / Galanter, Marc -- 'Intuitive Law versus Folk Law' / Podgorecki, Adam -- PART II FOLK LAW IN STATE COURTS -- Introduction / Schott, Rüdiger -- 'The Use of Folk Law in West Sumatran State Courts' / Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von -- 'Evolution of the Different Regimes of Customary Law in Ghana within the Framework of the Principle of Stare Decisis' / Kludze, A.K.P. -- 'From Folk Law Towards Jurists' Law: a Critical Review of the State Courts' Practice Concerning Adat Law in Indonesia' / Koesnoe, Mohammed -- 'The sublety of Legal Change: a Lesson from Northern Zambia' / Singer, Norman J. -- 'Folk Law in Official Courts of Turkey' / Starr, June -- 'Customary Law, State Courts, and the Notion of Institutionalization of Norms in Ghana and Nigeria' / Woodman, Gordon R. -- PART III COMPETITION BETWEEN STATE AND UNOFFICIAL LAW -- Introduction / Fitzpatrick, Peter -- 'Popular Justice, Participatory Development and Power Politics: the Lok Adalat in Turmoil' / Baxi, Upendra -- 'Some Comparative Generalizations about the Differential Use of State and Folk Institutions of Dispute Settlement' / Benda-Beckmann, Franz von -- 'The Channel of Official Law to Unofficial Law in Japan' / Chiba, Masaji -- 'Four Laws of Interaction in Circumstances of Legal Pluralism: First Steps Towards and Explanatory Theory' / Griffiths, J. -- 'Justice Against the Law: Traditional and Modern Jurisdiction in Northern Ghana' / Schott, Rüdiger -- 'Some Preliminary Notes to the Socio-Legal Documentary Film: In Search of Justice: Different Levels of Dispute Settlement Among the Anufòm in North Togo' / Rouveroy van Nieuwaal, E.A.B. van -- PART IV NEO-MARXIST INTERPRETATIONS OF FOLK LAW IN PLURALISTIC LEGAL SYSTEMS -- Introduction / Benda-Beckmann, Franz von -- 'Underdevelopment and the Plurality of Law' / Fitzpatrick, Peter -- 'Local Law in Black Africa: Contemporary Experiences of Folk Law Facing State and Capital in Senegal and Some Other Countries' / Le Roy, Etienne -- 'Folk Law' and Historical Transitions: Some Conceptual Issues' / Snyder, Francis G. -- PART V LEGAL POLICY -- Introduction / Woodman, Gordon R. -- 'Informal Alternatives to Courts as a Mode of Legalizing Conflict' / Abel, Richard L. -- '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' / Bayly, John U. -- 'Alaskan Bush Justice: Legal Centralism Confronts Social Science Research and Village Alaska' / Conn, Stephen -- 'The Role of Traditional Inuit Measures for Social Control in Correctional Policy and Administration' / Finkler, Harold W. -- Kirby, Justice M.D.'Australian Aboriginal Customary Law: Progress Report' -- 'Recognition of Folk Institutions for Dispute-Settlement in Lombok, Indonesia' / Strijbosch, F. -- The Authors -- Note on the Commission on Folk Law and Legal PluralismDe Gruyter Mouton, Genthiner Straße 13, 10785 Berlin 364 pp. Englisch.
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