Attorneys, as creatures of precedent and habit, can be lulled into believing that a way to do something is the way to do it simply because that's the customary way it has been done. It's one thing ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. More often than not, when we think about customs and laws, we think of them as two ...

Lee Godden has received past funding from the Australian Research Council (Linkage grants) related to the Agreements, Treaties and Negotiated Settlements project at The University of Melbourne. From ...

The organisation took this task very seriously and spent 8 years on research and expert consultations in order to produce this study. It seeks to provide a snapshot of custom today that is as accurate ...

Papua New Guinea’s legal framework intricately weaves together common, customary, and statutory laws, with customary law often taking precedence, says Nicholas Collier Papua New Guinea's (PNG) legal ...

One of the most substantial sources of law in the vast expanse of international law is that of customary international law. This is founded upon the idea that countries are obliged to certain norms of ...

While the Australian Law Reform Commissions’s 1986 report on the use of customary law for Aboriginal people was a great initiative, it was, in hindsight, a notion well before its time. Although 30 ...

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 ...