Legal Pluralism in Ethiopia : Actors, Challenges and Solutions /

Being a home to more than 80 ethnic groups, Ethiopia has to balance normative diversity with efforts to implement state law across its territory. This volume explores the co-existence of state, customary, and religious legal forums from the perspective of legal practitioners and local justice seeker...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Assefa, Getachew (Editor ), Epple, Susanne (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript-Verlag, [2020]
Colección:Kultur und soziale Praxis
Temas:
Legal polycentricity > Ethiopia.
Pluralisme juridique > Éthiopie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural & Social.
Legal polycentricity
Ethiopia
Africa.
Cultural Diversity.
Culture.
Customary Law.
Ethics.
Ethiopia.
Ethnology.
Law.
Normative Orders.
Sociology of Law.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Towards widening the constitutional space for customary justice systems in Ethiopia
  • 3. The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and African Societies
  • 4. Understanding customary laws in the context of legal pluralism
  • 5. The handling of homicide in the context of legal pluralism
  • 6. The interplay of customary and formal legal systems among the Tulama Oromo
  • 7. Federal Sharia Courts in Addis Ababa
  • 8. Use and abuse of 'the right to consent'
  • 9. Local strategies to maintain cultural integrity
  • 10. Legal pluralism and Protestant Christianity
  • 11. Kontract: A hybrid form of law among the Sidama
  • 12. Legal pluralism and emerging legal hybridity
  • 13. A matter perspective: Of transfers, switching, and cross-cutting legal procedures
  • 14. When parallel justice systems lack mutual recognition
  • 15. Combatting infanticide in Bashada and Hamar
  • 16. Clashing values
  • Glossary
  • Contributors

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