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Subject(s)

• Legal polycentricity—Ethiopia [Browse]

Editor

• Epple, Susanne [Browse]
• Getachew Assefa [Browse]

Series

• Kultur und soziale Praxis [More in this series]
• Culture and social practice

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Introduction / Susanne Epple
• Towards widening the constitutional space for customary justice systems in Ethiopia / Getachew Assefa
• The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and African societies / Karl-Heinz Kohl
• Understanding customary laws in the context of legal pluralism / Gebre Yntiso
• The handling of homicide in the context of legal pluralism : cooperation between government and customary institutions in the Gamo highlands / Temechegn Gutu
• The interplay of customary and formal legal systems among the Tulama Oromo : cooperation and competition / Melaku Abera
• Federal Sharia courts in Addis Ababa : their administration and the application of law in the light of recent developments / Mohammed Abdo
• Use and abuse of the "right to consent" : forum shopping between shimgilinna and state courts among the Amhara of Ankober, northcentral Ethiopia / Desalegn Amsalu Local strategies to maintain cultural integrity : the vernacularization of state law among the Bashada and Hamar of southern Ethiopia / Susanne Epple
• Legal pluralism and Protestant Christianity : from fine to forgiveness in an Aari community / Julian Sommerschuh --- Kontract : a hybrid form of law among the Sidama / Muradu Abdo
• Legal pluralism and emerging legal hybridity : interactions between the customary, state and religious law among the Siltie of southern Ethiopia / Kairedin Tezera
• A matter of perspective : of transfers, switching, and cross-cutting legal procedures : juridical processes among Oromo and Amhara, East Shewa / Andrea Nicolas
• When parallel justice systems lack mutual recognition : negative impacts on the resolution of criminal cases among the Borana Oromo / Aberra Degefa
• Combatting infanticide in Bashada and Hamar : the complexities behind a 'harmful traditional practice' in southern Ethiopia / Susanne Epple Clashing values : the 2015 conflict in Hamar district of South Omo Zone, southern Ethiopia / Yohannes Yitbarek.

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ISBN

• 9783837650211 (paperback)
• 3837650219 (paperback)

OCLC

1156371110

International Article Number

9783837650211

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