Aboriginal customary laws: proposals for recognition

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface 1
4. Introductory Essay: The State's Options 5
5. PART I. GENERAL RELATIONS BETWEEN INDIGENOUS LAW AND THE STATE: POLICY ARGUMENTS
6. Aboriginal customary laws: proposals for recognition 27
7. Aboriginal law and its importance for Aboriginal people: observations on the task of the Australian Law Reform Commission 65
8. The indigenization of social control in Canada 71
9. Indigenous law and state legal systems: conflict and compatibility 101
10. Searching for Indian common law 121
11. PART II. GENERAL RELATIONS BETWEEN INDIGENOUS LAW AND THE STATE: ANALYSES
12. Persistence of folk law in India with particular reference to the tribal communities 151
13. Comprehensive claims, culture and customary law: the case of the Labrador Inuit 167
14. How state courts create customary law in Ghana and Nigeria 181
15. PART III. CONSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS
16. Entering Canadian confederation the Dene experiment 223
17. The Inuit and customary law: constitutional perspectives 239
18. Recognition of traditional laws in state courts and the formulation of state legislation 259
19. Inside Brazilian Indian law: a comparative perspective 269
20. PART IV. QUESTIONS OF STATUS: WOMEN; CHILD PLACEMENT
21. Aboriginal women and the recognition of customary law in Australia 297
22. Towards an aboriginal child placement principle: a view from New South Wales 315
23. Aboriginal child placement in the urban context 347
24. PART V. ISSUES IN STATE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS
25. Exercising discretion: sentencing and customary law in the Northern Territory 367
26. One community, two laws: aspects of conflict and convergence in a Western Australian Aboriginal settlement 395
27. Legal anthropology in the formulation of correctional policy in the Northwest Territories, Canada 413
28. Institutionalizing criminality in Greenland 421
29. Alcohol control in Alaska Eskimo communities: communal vs. 'official' law 441
30. The Contributors 467