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Crime, Community Penalty And Integration With Legal Formalism In The South Pacific, Mark Findlay
Crime, Community Penalty And Integration With Legal Formalism In The South Pacific, Mark Findlay
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
The influence of introduced legality on prevailing culture, and vice versa, are common concerns for analysis when considering the existence and development of customary law. Much of the limited writing on law and custom prefers to speculate on the impact of introduced law on already present modes of regulation. While recognising these structuralist contexts of influence, often oversimplified as they are represented, this paper prefers to explore the adaptation of legal formalism in contexts of resilient and resonant custom.Further, the paper examines instances where despite the fact that custom has modified institutional legality, the latter claims predominance over culture or …