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Title Passage of change : law, society and governance in the Pacific / edited by Anita Jowitt and Tess Newton Cain.

Publication Info. Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press, 2010.

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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction / Anita Jowitt and Tess Newton-Cain -- SECTION 1: THE CONTEXT OF CHANGE. Modernisation and Development in the South Pacific / Vijay Naidu -- SECTION 2: CORRUPTION. Corruption / Robert Hughes -- Governance, Legitimacy and the Rule of Law in the South Pacific / Graham Hassall -- The Vanuatu Ombudsman / Edward R. Hill -- SECTION 3: CUSTOMARY LAW. Custom Then and Now: The Changing Melanesian Family / Jean G. Zorn -- Issues in Contemporary Customary Law: Women and the Law / Jean G. Zorn -- Rites, Whites and Might: A Critique of the Effect of the Revival of Customary Law upon the Autonomy of Indigenous Women / Susan Bothmann -- The Incorporation of Customary Law & Principle into Sentencing Decisions in the South Pacific Region / Tess Newton Cain -- SECTION 4: HUMAN RIGHTS. The Notion of Human Rights / Anita Jowitt -- Human Rights vs. Custom in the Pacific: Struggle, Adaptation, or Game? / Ian Fraser -- Customary Family Law and Gender Discrimination in Papua New Guinea / Owen Jessep -- SECTION 5: NATURAL RESOURCE ISSUES. Environmental Law Issues in the South Pacific and the Quest for Sustainable Development and Good Governance / Laurence Cordonnery -- Legal Developments in the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory and Straddling Fish Stocks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean / Laurence Cordonnery -- SECTION 6: REBUILDING NATION STATES. Building Bridges -- Law and Justice Reform in Papua New Guinea / Sinclair Dinnen -- Constitutions as Limits on the State in Melanesia: Comparative Perspectives on Constitutionalism, Participation and Civil Society / Anthony Regan -- Legal Pluralism and the Problem of Identity / Robert Hughes.
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Subject Jurisprudence -- Pacific Area.
Customary law -- Pacific Area.
Pacific Area -- Politics and government.
Pacific Area -- Social conditions.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- World -- Australian & Oceanian.
Customary law. (OCoLC)fst00885510
Jurisprudence. (OCoLC)fst00985043
Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
Pacific Area. (OCoLC)fst01243504
Added Author Jowitt, Anita.
Cain, Tess Newton.
Other Form: Print version: Passage of change. Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press, 2010 9781921666889 (OCoLC)670400759
ISBN 9781921666896 (electronic bk.)
1921666897 (electronic bk.)
9781921666889
1921666889
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