Customary international law is made up of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law. Customary international humanitarian law (IHL) is of ...

Today, the Supreme Court decided Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States. In this case, the United States brought criminal charges against a bank that was an instrumentality of the Turkish ...

‘I am not the first that this has happened to. Which is why I am fired up and encouraged by the spirits of all the widows who have been marginalised by patriarchal in-laws in moments of grief and ...

Before 1994, customary marriages were hardly recognised by law in South Africa. A customary marriage is defined as one concluded in accordance with customary law, that is, customs traditionally ...

In South Africa, the definition of a customary marriage is one that is negotiated, celebrated or concluded according to any of the systems of indigenous African customary law which exist in South ...

Traditional laws governing the management of natural resources known as tara bandu were outlawed during the Indonesian occupation of Timor-Leste. Since the country gained independence in 2002, it has ...

The recent judgment of the SCA confirming the conviction of King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo and upholding a sentence of 12 years imprisonment has been strongly criticised by supporters of the king. The ...

The efforts by the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies ( NIALS) to restate the Nigerian Customary law received a boost last week. The institute, at a stakeholders summit on the restatement of ...

Here’s a brief explanation about Indonesia’s adat communities and the bill: Who are the adat communities? There has been no agreement among international scholars on the exact definition of indigenous ...