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28 juillet 2016
- doi: 10.4000/books.cfee.479
- isbn: 9789994480821
- eisbn: 9782821872349
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justice droit minorités sociologie sociologie du droit justice law minorities sociology sociology of law Law Sociology & Anthropology SOC005000 JHBTSujets proches
Social theory Legislative acts Legislative enactments Acts, Legislative Enactments, Legislative Laws (Statutes) Injustice Customs (Law) Folk law Usage and custom (Law)Citer ce document
Alula Pankhurst et al., « Understanding Customary Dispute Resolution in Ethiopia », Centre français des études éthiopiennes, ID : 10.4000/books.cfee.479
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In his article on customary law in the Encyclopaedia Aethiopica the late legal historian Aberra Jembere noted that customary law is ‘made by the people and not the state’ and derives its legitimacy ‘from participation and consensus of the community and its recognition of the same by the government’ (Aberra 2003:839). Customary dispute resolution is paradoxically both general and specific in Ethiopia. On the one hand it is widespread and found spatially almost ubiquitously throughout the count...