Today, the Supreme Court decided Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States. In this case, the United States brought criminal charges against a bank that was an instrumentality of the Turkish ...

Customary law is coming in from the cold. Important judgments delivered this month show the courts supporting, as valid law, community practices that shun patriarchal, antidemocratic and elitist ...

The efforts by the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies ( NIALS) to restate the Nigerian Customary law received a boost last week. The institute, at a stakeholders summit on the restatement of ...

Here’s a brief explanation about Indonesia’s adat communities and the bill: Who are the adat communities? There has been no agreement among international scholars on the exact definition of indigenous ...

Traditional laws governing the management of natural resources known as tara bandu were outlawed during the Indonesian occupation of Timor-Leste. Since the country gained independence in 2002, it has ...

In South Africa, the definition of a customary marriage is one that is negotiated, celebrated or concluded according to any of the systems of indigenous African customary law which exist in South ...

The UN Security Council spends much of its time and resources addressing Non-International Armed Conflicts (or NIACs), the most prevalent form of armed conflict today. In so doing the Council ...

Lorretta Favour Chizomam Ntoimo does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant ...

In the heat of countrywide fights for land, the High Court in Blantyre has ruled that owners of customary land who have owned and used customary land for a long time are protected by the Constitution ...