ISBN:
9780521897044
,
9780521721820
,
0521897041
,
0521721822
Language:
English
Pages:
XIV, 266 S.
,
24 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
DDC:
340.5
Keywords:
Customary law
;
Law Sources
;
Gewohnheitsrecht
;
Innerstaatliches Recht
;
Völkergewohnheitsrecht
;
Gewohnheit
;
Rechtsquelle
Description / Table of Contents:
Anthropology : custom in preliterate societies -- Culture : the western legal tradition of positivism -- History : the common law and custom -- Economics, sociobiology, and psychology : the human impulse of custom -- Family law -- Property -- Contracts -- Torts -- Constitutional law -- Private international law : international commercial usage -- Public international law : custom among nations -- Conclusion : how and why custom endures.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-255) and index
