I became an interpretivist as I wrote this book, which is a confession I often imagine would
disappoint the authors of some of the resources I drew on to design my research …

The tools of analytical positivism and economic analysis are applied to the phenomenon of
legal pluralism. An analytical framework is developed to ascertain when legal pluralism is …

This book offers a comparative study of the management of legal pluralism. The authors
describe and analyse the way state and non-state legal systems acknowledge legal …

This article investigates the impact of non-state legal institutions on crime by exploiting
differences in pre-colonial legal institutions. In relation to criminal law, it is suggested that …

This paper investigates the role that precolonial institutions play in relation to postcolonial
natural resource ownership contests. Papua New Guinea provides a unique case study, as it …

This article investigates beliefs concerning the legitimacy of the traditional customary
practice of payback in the New Guinea Islands; a practice that has been illegal for more than …

We examine the problem suggested by the troubled history of legal transplants, the instance
of legal pluralism in which an existing territory has a new legal system overlaid on the …

The discussion about legal pluralism is often framed by the state's perspective. From this
point of view, the state is in the centre and has to deal with the 'problem'of other legal …

The paper focuses on the application of a particular conception of the rule of law to
situations characterized by traditional local justice and legal pluralism. While in the twentieth …