It shouldn’t be possible for the state to criminally prosecute a person for exercising their legal rights. This was, however, exactly what happened to Mr Gongqose and other members of the Dwesa-Cwebe ...

In the Royal Bafokeng Nation "a king is a king by virtue of the people" (kgosi ke kgosi ka morafe). This was endorsed by the South African High Court in a decision extending the principle of direct ...

More often than not, when we think about customs and laws, we think of them as two distinct categories. Customs are encouraged, but optional: replying to an RSVP request, writing a thank-you note, ...

Today, the Supreme Court decided Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States. In this case, the United States brought criminal charges against a bank that was an instrumentality of the Turkish ...

One of the most important disputes in the negotiation of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) at the United Nations is the question of whether the treaty should include a customary international law (CIL) ...

Maria Tickle: On the program today, customary law and Anglo-Australian law; can they mix? Next week the Northern Territory Law Reform Committee is presenting recommendations to the N.T. government on ...

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 ...

A legal challenge to Commonwealth Intervention legislation that restricts the use of Aboriginal customary law in sentencing has failed in the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory. The decision was ...

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 ...

Prof. Michael Ntumy of the Faculty of Law, Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), has urged Nigeria and other African countries not to give up in their quest to codify the customary ...