“Folk Law in Official Courts of Turkey”

Chapters in this book

1. I-VIII I
2. Introduction by Antony Allott and Gordon R. Woodman 1
3. PART I INFORMAL SOCIAL CONTROL
4. Introduction 13
5. “Popular Law-Making in Western Society” 21
6. “Cultural Ideology and Empirical Reality: Case Studies in Contemporary Law Management” 35
7. “How the Qolla Handle Homicide: the Demifeud in Action” 55
8. “Indigenous Law and Official Law in the Contemporary United States” 67
9. “Intuitive Law versus Folk Law” 71
10. PART II FOLK LAW IN STATE COURTS
11. Introduction 75
12. “The Use of Folk Law in West Sumatran State Courts” 77
13. “Evolution of the Different Regimes of Customary Law in Ghana within the Framework of the Principle of Stare Decisis” 97
14. “From Folk Law Towards Jurists’ Law: a Critical Review of the State Courts’ Practice Concerning Adat Law in Indonesia” 105
15. “The sublety of Legal Change: a Lesson from Northern Zambia” 109
16. “Folk Law in Official Courts of Turkey” 123
17. “Customary Law, State Courts, and the Notion of Institutionalization of Norms in Ghana and Nigeria” 143
18. PART III COMPETITION BETWEEN STATE AND UNOFFICIAL LAW
19. Introduction 167
20. “Popular Justice, Participatory Development and Power Politics: the Lok Adalat in Turmoil” 171
21. “Some Comparative Generalizations about the Differential Use of State and Folk Institutions of Dispute Settlement” 187
22. “The Channel of Official Law to Unofficial Law in Japan” 207
23. “Four Laws of Interaction in Circumstances of Legal Pluralism: First Steps Towards and Explanatory Theory” 217
24. “Justice Against the Law: Traditional and Modern Jurisdiction in Northern Ghana” 229
25. “Some Preliminary Notes to the Socio-Legal Documentary Film: In Search of Justice: Different Levels of Dispute Settlement Among the Anufòm in North Togo” 233
26. PART IV NEO-MARXIST INTERPRETATIONS OF FOLK LAW IN PLURALISTIC LEGAL SYSTEMS
27. Introduction 241
28. “Underdevelopment and the Plurality of Law” 249
29. “Local Law in Black Africa: Contemporary Experiences of Folk Law Facing State and Capital in Senegal and Some Other Countries” 253
30. “Folk Law’ and Historical Transitions: Some Conceptual Issues” 263
31. PART V LEGAL POLICY
32. Introduction 277
33. “Informal Alternatives to Courts as a Mode of Legalizing Conflict” 281
34. “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” 285
35. “Alaskan Bush Justice: Legal Centralism Confronts Social Science Research and Village Alaska” 299
36. “The Role of Traditional Inuit Measures for Social Control in Correctional Policy and Administration” 321
37. Kirby, Justice M.D.“Australian Aboriginal Customary Law: Progress Report” 327
38. “Recognition of Folk Institutions for Dispute-Settlement in Lombok, Indonesia” 331
39. The Authors 349
40. Note on the Commission on Folk Law and Legal Pluralism 355