The Concept of Living Customary Law: A Critique

Diala, Anthony

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2992007

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“…57 Linking institutions act like knowledge brokers that translate regulatory ideas into a mutually comprehensible language. 58 Knowledge brokers operate at the 50 57 See Teubner, supra note 53. 58 See BENTON, supra note 3, at 3-9; Sally Engle Merry, Transnational Human Rights and Local Activism: Mapping the Middle, 108(1) AM.…”

Section: B Theorizing An External Comparative Perspectivementioning

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Legal Pluralism and the Struggle for Customary Law in the Vietnamese Highlands

Gillespie

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2022

The American Journal of Comparative Law

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For centuries, diverse groups of people living in the highlands of Southeast Asia have resisted lowland empires in China, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. The interaction between lowlanders and highlanders has been described as “internal colonization”—a process involving the absorption or displacement of highland communities and customary law. This Article draws on an empirical study to explore whether the Vietnamese Government’s new “village covenant” (Hương ước) program is continuing internal colonization by transforming and displacing customary law in the Vietnamese Central Highlands. It uses a novel analytical framework—synthetized from legal pluralism and systems theory—to argue the state legal system and highland communities lack a shared conceptual grammar in which to identify common ground, reconcile differences, and converge. The Article closes with the conclusion that, although highland communities are resisting internal colonization, the forces of modernity are slowly changing the deeply held epistemic assumptions underlying customary law.

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Section: B Theorizing An External Comparative Perspectivementioning

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Legal Pluralism and the Struggle for Customary Law in the Vietnamese Highlands

Gillespie

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2022

The American Journal of Comparative Law

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“…In my first critique of this conceptualisation, I asked a similar question: 'is it not plausible that a judgment can reflect living customary law, especially when the judge(s) belong(s) to the same normative community as litigants?' 52 As I show below, the answer reveals the incongruity of the term 'living customary law', especially in an era of exponential globalisation.…”

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Legal Pluralism and the Future of Personal Family Laws in Africa

Diala

2021

SSRN Journal

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“…Formalisasi ini telah menghasilkan dua versi customary law, yaitu: (official) customary law dan (living) customary law. Versi pertama telah banyak terdistorsi oleh kepentingan kolonial dan pemerintah pasca-kolonial di Afrika dan tidak lagi mencerminkan customary law yang dianut masyarakat (Diala, 2017…”

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‘Hukum Yang Hidup’ Dalam Rancangan Kitab Undang-Undang Hukum Pidana (Kuhp): Antara Akomodasi Dan Negasi

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2020

Masalah Masalah Hukum

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Rancangan KUHP yang baru mempromosikan ‘hukum yang hidup’ (hukum adat) sebagai dasar pemidanaan sekaligus memperluas pemaknaan atas asas legalitas. Insiasi ini juga menunjukkan upaya negara untuk melakukan inkorporasi hukum non-negara kedalam sistem hukum negara. Artikel ini bertujuan untuk mendiskusikan dua hal. Pertama, bagaimana hukum yang hidup dikonstruksikan dalam RUU KUHP dan apa orientasi pengaturannya. Kedua, apa saja implikasi yang dihasilkan dari orientasi tersebut. Dengan menggunakan pluralisme hukum sebagai instrumen analisis, artikel berargumen bahwa akomodasi tersebut adalah sebuah rekonstruksi yang parsial. RUU KUHP hanya menggunakan ‘hukum yang hidup’ untuk menjatuhkan pidana tetapi mengabaikan ‘hukum yang hidup’ sebagai dasar mengurangi pidana atau membebaskan seseorang dari pidana. Konstruksi ini berisiko menimbulkan kesewenang-wenangan negara dan melahirkan dualitas hukum adat.

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The Concept of Living Customary Law: A Critique

Cited by 20 publications

References 37 publications

Legal Pluralism and the Struggle for Customary Law in the Vietnamese Highlands

Legal Pluralism and the Struggle for Customary Law in the Vietnamese Highlands

Legal Pluralism and the Future of Personal Family Laws in Africa

‘Hukum Yang Hidup’ Dalam Rancangan Kitab Undang-Undang Hukum Pidana (Kuhp): Antara Akomodasi Dan Negasi

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