Citing Volusia County cases, an appellate court stood up for beachgoers’ right of access, but litigation is ongoing.

The state currently requires midwives to be licensed with very limited exemptions for traditional methods. A First Circuit ...

If local governments adopted ordinances before July 1, 2018, the state law said they could raise customary use as what is known as an “affirmative defense” if the ordinances were challenged in ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) stated on Wednesday that the simultaneous detonation of thousands of communication devices across ...

A woman in Aceh, Indonesia, before being caned in November for having sex outside of marriage. Aceh province already has strict laws against sex outside marriage Indonesia's parliament is expected ...

The authors of this book believe that the role customary law plays in the sustainable development of natural resources deserves more study than it has received. Too often, customary law has been ...

From the African customary law of succession, which deals with lineage progression and succession to the role, status and responsibilities of the deceased and the administration of the provident ...

A number of legal systems coexist and often intersect with conventional (Western) intellectual property protections, including customary law, international law, informal or “vernacular” intellectual ...

Using case studies from Greenland, Hawaii and northern Norway, this 2006 book examines whether 'bottom-up' systems such as customary law can play a critical role in achieving viable systems for ...

Customary law is critical to the role of human rights law. The domestic enforceability of customary international law is manifest in the case of Filartiga v. Pena-Irala: "In the twentieth century ...

Customary law is critical to the role of human rights law. The domestic enforceability of customary international law is manifest in the case of Filartiga v. Pena-Irala, [12] Two issues were made ...