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The Nature of Customary Law

Perreau-Saussine, Amanda, and James Bernard Murphy (eds). 2007. The Nature of customary law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 348 pp

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  1. I characterise the contributions from Schauer, Lobban, Cromartie, and Tasioulas as treating custom in this way, though this is in some cases this is a particular interpretation and may not have been the author’s intention.

  2. For instance, see Harrison, Tierney, Murphy, Postema and Lesaffer. Other contributions expressly seek to make sense of some apparent inconsistencies or shifting senses between these two treatments, see for example Porter, Perreau-Saussine, and Ibbetson. Kletzer’s work, particularly in its distinction of the ideas of positivity in Hegel’s work from those of Savigny, might also fit into this category.

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Roughan, N. The Nature of Customary Law. Res Publica 15, 305–313 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-008-9079-6

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