Jennifer Corrin Care
Biographic Data
| ID | 5795304 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Corrin Care |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer Corrin |
| FAMILY NAME | Care |
| SIGNATURE | CARE J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dr Jennifer Corrin Care is the Executive Director of Comparative Law in the Centre for International, Public and Comparative Law and Associate Professor at the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is also a Barrister and Solicitor of the Fiji Islands and Solomon Islands. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Green Stick or A Fresh Stick? Locating Customary Penalties in The Post-Colonial Era
Former colonies and dependencies in the South Pacific do not have the luxury of entirely ‘homegrown’ laws. Their legal systems are burdened with a ‘legacy’ of transplanted laws, developed for use in a foreign country, imposed on pre-existing systems of custom and culture. As a result, many small island countries are struggling to balance the demands of law from different sources, designed to operate in fundamentally different circumstances. In ad…
Off the Peg’ or ‘Made to Measure’
Barava Tru’
[I]t is the transformation of custom into customary law—into something that State courts will recognize, enforce and require—that disrupts the continuity of the indigenous systems. In pre-colonial times ... [the settlement of disputes] ... depended ... on the mutual processes of negotiation and compromise. There is no need to romanticize these processes.... But the important point in this context is that norms play a very different part in negoti…
Legislating Pluralism
This article analyses and compares recent legislation relating to customary law in two Pacific countries: the Underlying Law Act 2000, of Papua New Guinea, and the Customs Recognition Act 2000, of Solomon Islands. The article first presents a historical analysis of the recognition and regulation of customary law during the colonial period and since independence. Each Act is then examined in detail. The individual clauses of the Acts, and in parti…
Unfinished Constitutional Business Human Rights in Fiji Islands
Customary Law and Human Rights in Solomon Islands
The Constitution of Solomon Islands provides that no person shall be deprived of specified human rights and freedoms, including freedom of movement. The Constitution recognises customary law as a formal source of law and enjoins Parliament to have particular regard to it; but it also provides that, to the extent that customary law is inconsistent with the Constitution, it is not to apply.In Remisio Pusi v James Leni and others the plaintiff appli…
Barava Tru’
[I]t is the transformation of custom into customary law—into something that State courts will recognize, enforce and require—that disrupts the continuity of the indigenous systems. In pre-colonial times ... [the settlement of disputes] ... depended ... on the mutual processes of negotiation and compromise. There is no need to romanticize these processes.... But the important point in this context is that norms play a very different part in negoti…
Customary Law and Human Rights in Solomon Islands
The Constitution of Solomon Islands provides that no person shall be deprived of specified human rights and freedoms, including freedom of movement. The Constitution recognises customary law as a formal source of law and enjoins Parliament to have particular regard to it; but it also provides that, to the extent that customary law is inconsistent with the Constitution, it is not to apply.In Remisio Pusi v James Leni and others the plaintiff appli…
Unfinished Constitutional Business Human Rights in Fiji Islands
Legislating Pluralism
This article analyses and compares recent legislation relating to customary law in two Pacific countries: the Underlying Law Act 2000, of Papua New Guinea, and the Customs Recognition Act 2000, of Solomon Islands. The article first presents a historical analysis of the recognition and regulation of customary law during the colonial period and since independence. Each Act is then examined in detail. The individual clauses of the Acts, and in parti…
Off the Peg’ or ‘Made to Measure’
Barava Tru’
[I]t is the transformation of custom into customary law—into something that State courts will recognize, enforce and require—that disrupts the continuity of the indigenous systems. In pre-colonial times ... [the settlement of disputes] ... depended ... on the mutual processes of negotiation and compromise. There is no need to romanticize these processes.... But the important point in this context is that norms play a very different part in negoti…
A Green Stick or A Fresh Stick? Locating Customary Penalties in The Post-Colonial Era
Former colonies and dependencies in the South Pacific do not have the luxury of entirely ‘homegrown’ laws. Their legal systems are burdened with a ‘legacy’ of transplanted laws, developed for use in a foreign country, imposed on pre-existing systems of custom and culture. As a result, many small island countries are struggling to balance the demands of law from different sources, designed to operate in fundamentally different circumstances. In ad…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Business (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Common law (2 works) · Human rights (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works) · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies (2 works)