AuthorWeisbrot, David
TitleLaw and social change in Papua New Guinea / editors, David Weisbrot, Abdul Paliwala, Akilagpa Sawyerr
Imprint Sydney : Butterworths, 1982
Descript xxiv, 319 p. : maps ; 24 cm

CONTENT

Changing society through law -- History and movement in law reform in Papua New Guinea -- The Policital economy of law in the post-colonial period -- Customizing the substantive law: Integration of laws in Papua New Guinea: customs and the criminal law in conflict -- Land policy in Papua New Guinea -- Reform of family law in Papua New Guinea -- Equal rights for women in Papua New Guinea: Fact of fiction? -- The Constitution and legal institutions: A History of the role of traditional dispute settlement procedures in the courts of Papua New Guinea -- Law and order in the village: the village courts -- The Constitution in the courts 1975-1980 -- The Legal profession and the delivery of legal services in Papua New Guinea -- Economic decolonization: Relations of dependence and the Papua New Guinea-Australia trade agreement -- Ubanization dynamics and the inflexible law


SUBJECT

  1. Law -- Papua New Guinea
  2. Sociological jurisprudence

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