This In Brief explores a persistent, and perhaps intensifying, trend in parts of Melanesia for communities to write down their own rules and regulations in the form of what are called community laws, by-laws, constitutions or even ordinances.AusAI
Law pervades the social, political, and economic aspects of the lives of all people in all communiti...
Clashes over the status of West Papua and the political future of the territory proliferated markedl...
In a country such as Vanuatu, where land is owned by the indigenous custom owners and the Constituti...
The July 2018 Codification and Creation of Community & Customary Laws in the South Pacific and Beyon...
A sense of the sacred permeates the cultures of Melanesia: a region among the world's most Christian...
Governance in Vanuatu has been a source of concern for Australia as it forms part of Australia'...
At Independence, Papua New Guinea's Constitution gave customary laws a prominent place in the countr...
One of the many post-colonial claims of indigenous people is the re-assertion of their rights over t...
Constitutionalism in Solomon Islands is dominated by the written Constitution, which imports a Westm...
This In Brief contributes to a discussion of access to justice, and legal practices in Papua New Gui...
Based on critical postcolonial theories developed by Said, Spivak and Bhabha, this paper attempts to...
In the plural legal systems of the South Pacific island nations, there is an ongoing struggle to har...
This chapter examines the theoretical bases that may be used to support the formal recognition of cu...
This thesis examines the recognition by the state of the customary law of indigenous peoples by refe...
This article approaches the relationship between the categories of custom and law by means of an exp...
Law pervades the social, political, and economic aspects of the lives of all people in all communiti...
Clashes over the status of West Papua and the political future of the territory proliferated markedl...
In a country such as Vanuatu, where land is owned by the indigenous custom owners and the Constituti...
The July 2018 Codification and Creation of Community & Customary Laws in the South Pacific and Beyon...
A sense of the sacred permeates the cultures of Melanesia: a region among the world's most Christian...
Governance in Vanuatu has been a source of concern for Australia as it forms part of Australia'...
At Independence, Papua New Guinea's Constitution gave customary laws a prominent place in the countr...
One of the many post-colonial claims of indigenous people is the re-assertion of their rights over t...
Constitutionalism in Solomon Islands is dominated by the written Constitution, which imports a Westm...
This In Brief contributes to a discussion of access to justice, and legal practices in Papua New Gui...
Based on critical postcolonial theories developed by Said, Spivak and Bhabha, this paper attempts to...
In the plural legal systems of the South Pacific island nations, there is an ongoing struggle to har...
This chapter examines the theoretical bases that may be used to support the formal recognition of cu...
This thesis examines the recognition by the state of the customary law of indigenous peoples by refe...
This article approaches the relationship between the categories of custom and law by means of an exp...
Law pervades the social, political, and economic aspects of the lives of all people in all communiti...
Clashes over the status of West Papua and the political future of the territory proliferated markedl...
In a country such as Vanuatu, where land is owned by the indigenous custom owners and the Constituti...