RECENT PUBLICATIONS
The following two books have
been published recently and may be of interest to group
members:
Kenneth
Brown, Reconciling
Customary Law and Received Law in Melanesia: The
Post-Independence Experience in Solomon Islands and Vanuatu,
2005, Darwin: CDU Press,
ISBN 0-9757614-8-X
The publishing blurb states
that ‘This book adds to the growing body of legal
scholarship on Pacific island jurisdictions. One of the main
issues in the post-imperial era has been the inter-reaction
and relationship between introduced law and customary law.
The author looks at this problem in the context of two
neighbouring Melanesian jurisdictions, Solomon Islands and
Vanuatu and analyses the constitutional provisions dealing
with the application of various legal sources. He then
examines what has actually happened in practice in the
post-independence period with special reference to the law
relating to the family and succession and inheritance.’
Further details can be found at: http://www.cdu.edu.au/cdupress/books/reconciling-customary-law-kbrown.html
Mohammed
Ahmadu and Robert Hughes,
Commercial Law & Practice
in the South Pacific, 2005, London: Cavendish,
ISBN
1859418406
The publishing blurb states
that this book ‘Examines the main areas of commercial law
which apply in the common law jurisdictions of the South
Pacific region. This includes Cook Islands, Fiji Islands,
Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Niue, Nauru, (Western) Samoa,
Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. Its approach is
both structural, in terms of the establishment and
termination of commercial organizations as well as their
internal and external relations, and transactional, in
examining the legal principles applicable to various kinds
of commercial dealings such as insurance, sale of goods,
bills of exchange and aspects of foreign trade and
international commerce relevant to the region.’
