African law and legal theory / edited by Gordon R. Woodman and A.O. Obilade.
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Title
African law and legal theory / edited by Gordon R. Woodman and A.O. Obilade.
Published
New York : New York University Press, 1995.
Call Number
KQ2030 .A37 1995
Former Call Number
Af 230 Af832 1995
ISBN
0814792928
Description
xxix, 474 pages ; 25 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)32131196
Note
"New York University Press reference collection."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Series Preface
Introduction
1
An Anthropological Approach to Bantu Law: With Special Reference to Shona Law / J. F. Holleman
5
2
The Traditional Concept of Justice Among the Ibo of South-Eastern Nigeria / Otonti Nduka
19
3
Indigenous Law and Justice: Some Major Concepts and Practices / Chukwuemeka Ebo
33
4
The Meaning, Content and Significance of Tribal Law in an Emergent Nation: The Kenya Case / Jackton B. Ojwang
43
5
Trouble-Cases and Trouble-Less Cases in the Study of Customary Law and Legal Reform / J. F. Holleman
61
6
Limitations of the Case-Method in the Study of Tribal Law / Max Gluckman
87
7
Jurisprudence and Legal Anthropology: the Roles of Theory and Method Revisited / John Gregory Hund
87
8
Legal and Sociological Approaches to Indigenous Law in Southern Africa / John Hund
131
9
Some Realism About Customary Law - The West African Experience / Gordon R. Woodman
145
10
Neither Customary nor Legal: African Customary Law in an Era of Family Law Reform' / Martin Chanock
171
11
Kelsen's Grundnorm in Modern Constitution-Making: The Kenya Case / J. O. Rachuonyo
191
12
Revolutionary Regimes and the Pre-Existing Law in Nigeria / A. O. Obilade
207
13
Jurisprudence's Day in Court in Ghana / S. K. Date-Bah
215
14
Kelsen, the Grundnorm and the 1979 Constitution / Kwamena Ahwoi
225
15
Kelsen, the Grundnorm and the 1979 Constitution - A Rejoinder / Anne-Marie Ofori
255
16
Do African Systems of Land Tenure Require a Special Terminology? / Kwamena Bentsi-Enchill
265
17
Property Theory and Land-Use Analysis: An Essay in the Political Economy of Ideas / H. W. O. Okoth-Ogendo
291
18
Witchcraft: A Problem a Fault and Causation / T. W. Bennett W. M. Scholtz
307
19
Problems in the Description of African Systems of Landholding / Geoffrey MacCormack
321
20
Terminology and Land Tenure in Customary Law: An Exercise in Linguistic Theory / T. W. Bennett
335
21
Laying a Basis for Rights: Towards a Jurisprudence of Development / J. B. Ojwang
351
22
The Rule of Law in General and Kenyan Perspectives / J. B. Ojwang G. Kamau Kuria
401
23
The Judicial Process, Positivism and Civil Liberty II / Christopher Forsyth Johann Schiller
421
24
Some Realism About the Judicial Process and Positivism - A Reply / John Dugard
435
25
Judges and Injustice / Raymond Wacks
451
Name Index
471