Table of 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.