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

Canberra : Pandanus Books 2003.

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Jurisprudence -- South Pacific.

South Pacific -- Politics and government.

South Pacific -- Social conditions.

Introduction

I. The context of change :

1. Modernisation and development in the South Pacific

II. Corruption :

2. Corruption

3. Governance, legitimacy and the rule of law in the South Pacific

4. The Vanuatu ombudsman

III. Customary law :

5. Custom then and now : the changing Melanesian family

6. Issues in contemporary customary law : women and the law

7. Rites, white and might : a critique of the effect of the revival of customary law upon the autonomy of indigenous women

8. The incorporation of customary law & principle into sentencing decisions in the South Pacific Region

Part IV : Human rights

9. The notion of human rights

10. Human rights vs. custom in the Pacific : struggle, adaptation, or game?

11. Customary family law and gender discrimination in Papua New Guinea

Part V. Natural resource issues :

12. Environmental law issues in the South Pacific and the quest for sustainable development and good governance

13. Legal developments in the conservation and management of highly migratory and straddling fish stocks in the Western and Central Pacific ocean

Part VI. Rebuilding nation states :

14. Building bridges : law and justice reform in Papua New Guinea

15. Constitutions as limits on the state in Melanesia : comparative perspectives on Constitutionalism, participation and civil society

16. Legal pluralism and the problem of identity.

Includes index.

South Pacific collection.

9781740760256

xx; 357 pages