Oxford LibGuides: Indigenous Peoples: legal resources: Indigenous or Customary Law

Indigenous or Customary Law

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Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History
Remote access requires Oxford SSO. Has entries for the following topics Aboriginal Law, Folk Law, Maori Law, Naga Law, Native American Law - as well as many for countries/jurisdictions with indigenous populations.
Alternative name: OIELH

The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History is the online version of the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (edited by S.N. Katz et al) published by OUP in 2009.

Customary Law has been the most usual term to designate the law/legal system of the indigenous peoples in English publications. Synonyms (or near synonyms) you may encounter in your research include folk law, non-state law, indigenous law, people’s law, native law, primitive law, tribal law, traditional law, and chthonic law.

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Customary law
Culture and law
Legal polycentricity
Sociological jurisprudence
Ethnological jurisprudence
Law, Primitive

The Law of Primitive Man : A Study in Comparative Legal Dynamics by E. Adamson Hoebel
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
ISBN: 9780674038707
Publication Date: 2009
Analysis of the unwritten laws etc of societies from the Arctic, north Luzon in the Philippines; the western plains of the United States; the southwest Pacific; and western Africa.
Philosophy of Customary Law by James Bernard Murphy
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link.
ISBN: 0199370621
Publication Date: 2014
Print copy is at Jurisp 510 M978.4b
Indigenous Peoples, Customary Law and Human Rights - Why Living Law Matters by Brendan Tobin
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this via title link
ISBN: 9781138019683
Publication Date: 2014
Print copy is at Internat 570 T629.3a
Aboriginal Customary Law: a Source of Common Law Title to Land by Ulla Secher
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link.
ISBN: 9781849465533
Publication Date: 2014
Print copy is at Cw Gen 510 S444.7a
The Future of African Customary Law by Jeanmarie Fenrich (Editor); Paolo Galizzi (Editor); Tracy E. Higgins (Editor)
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this via title link
ISBN: 9780521118538
Publication Date: 2011
print copy is at General 510 F340a
Anthropology of Law : a comparative theory by Leopold Pospísil
Call Number: KA70.A5.POS 1971
ISBN: 0060452471
Publication Date: 1971