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Editor

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

Series

• Kultur und Soziale Praxis [More in this series]
• Kultur und soziale Praxis

Biographical/​Historical note

• Susanne Epple (PhD), born in 1968, is a social anthropologist and research affiliate at the Frobenius Institute in Frankfurt/Main. She has undertaken extensive fieldwork in Southern Ethiopia for 25 years, and has taught and published extensively on issues related to gender and age in agropastoral societies, cultural contact and change, hereditary status groups, and legal pluralism.
• Getachew Assefa (PhD), born in 1973, is associate professor of law at Addis Ababa University. He has published widely on issues related to minority rights, federalism and constitutional litigation, and legal pluralism. His areas of interest include comparative constitutional law and federalism, human rights, traditional governance and justice systems, as well as law and religion.

Summary note

Being a home to more than 80 ethnic groups, Ethiopia has to balance normative diversity with efforts to implement state law across its territory.This volume explores the co-existence of state, customary, and religious legal forums from the perspective of legal practitioners and local justice seekers. It shows how the various stakeholders' use of negotiation, and their strategic application of law can lead to unwanted confusion, but also to sustainable conflict resolution, innovative new procedures and hybrid norms. The book thus generates important knowledge on the conditions necessary for stimulating a cooperative co-existence of different legal systems.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Rights and reproductions note

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Language note

In English.

Contents

Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgements 9 1. Introduction 11 2. Towards widening the constitutional space for customary justice systems in Ethiopia 43 3. The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and African Societies 63 4. Understanding customary laws in the context of legal pluralism 71 5. The handling of homicide in the context of legal pluralism 97 6. The interplay of customary and formal legal systems among the Tulama Oromo 115 7. Federal Sharia Courts in Addis Ababa 139 8. Use and abuse of 'the right to consent' 163 9. Local strategies to maintain cultural integrity 187 10. Legal pluralism and Protestant Christianity 213 11. Kontract: A hybrid form of law among the Sidama 235 12. Legal pluralism and emerging legal hybridity 263 13. A matter perspective: Of transfers, switching, and cross-cutting legal procedures 283 14. When parallel justice systems lack mutual recognition 311 15. Combatting infanticide in Bashada and Hamar 339 16. Clashing values 371 Glossary 399 Contributors 409

Other format(s)

Also available in print form.

Other title(s)

Epple/Assefa (eds.), Legal Pluralism in Ethiopia Actors, Challenges and Solutions

ISBN

• 9783839450215
• 3839450217

OCLC

1198929403

Doi

10.14361/9783839450215

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