Law Reform in Plural Societies

This book asserts that the Pacific Islands continue to struggle with the colonial legacy of plural legal systems, comprising laws and legal institutions from both the common law and the customary legal system. It also investigates the extent to which customary principles and values are accommodated in legislation. Focusing on Samoa, the author argues that South Pacific countries continue to adopt a Western approach to law reform without considering legal pluralism, which often results in laws which are unsuitable and irrelevant to Samoa. In the context of this system of law making, effective law reform in Samoa can only be achieved where the law reform process recognises the legitimacy of the two primary legal systems. The book goes on to present a law reform process that is more relevant and suitable for law making in the Pacific Islands or any post-colonial societies.

List of contents

Introduction.- Law Reform and Legal Pluralism Developments.- A Research Methodology for the Pacific.- The Value of Law Reform - Social and Cultural.- State Focused Law Reform - Constituional Offices, Institutions and Agents.- Towards Responsive Law Reform.- A Suitable Reform Framework for Pluralist Countries.

Summary

First ever to investigate suitable law reform processes for pluralist societies
Discusses how a ‘local jurisprudence’ could support law reform
Examines codification and restatement in law reform
Addresses legal transplants and law reform
Describes customary law and state law - accommodation through law reform

Product details

• Authors: Teleiai La Mulitalo Ropinisone Silipa Seumanutafa, Teleiai Lalotoa Mulitalo Ropinisone Silipa Seumanutafa, Teleiai Lalotoa Mulitalo Seumanutafa
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9783319655239
• ISBN: 978-3-31-965523-9
• No. of pages: 196
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 242 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 438 g
• Illustrations: XIX, 196 p. 2 illus.
• Series: World Sustainability Series; The World of Small States; The World of Small States; World Sustainability Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Internationale Beziehungen, B, Law, International Relations, Private International Law, Law and Criminology, Conflict of Laws, comparative law, Law—Philosophy, Methods, theory & philosophy of law, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History