NUMBER 23 / 1985
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
KEEBET VON
BENDA-BECKMANN
is presently on the staff of the Law Faculty of the Erasmus University of
Rotterdam. She recently completed her dissertation, The Broken Stairways to
Consensus: Village Justice and State Courts in Minangkabau (Catholic
University, Nijmegen, 1984) - it will be reviewed in a forthcoming issue of JLP.
Together with Franz von Benda-Beckmann she has recently completed a half year of
field research on Ambon, Indonesia, concerning indigenous and state systems of
social security. She has contributed to JLP in the past. See “About the
Contributors” in issue 19 for fuller particulars.
GOVAERT C.J.J. VAN DEN BERGH
is a
member of the Editorial Advisory Board of JLP. See “About the Contributors” in
issue 22
for further particulars.
MARC DENHEZ
practices law in Ottawa. After studying political science at the Université de
Montréal he received his law degree from McGill University in 1973. From
1975-1979 he was counsel and research director of Heritage Canada Foundation,
and from 1979-1982 Senior Counsel of Inuit Tapirisat of Canada. Since returning
to private practice in 1982 he continues to represent a number of Inuit and
Indian organisations. He is the author of several books and numerous articles in
legal journals.
JERRY EADES
is
Lecturer in the Social Sciences Faculty of the University of Kent in Canterbury.
He received his doctorate in social anthropology at Cambridge University. He has
taught at Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria and has done research in Ghana and
Nigeria; his research interests are in migration, trade, urbanisation, and the
role of the state, especially in West Africa. He is author of The Yoruba
Today (Cambridge University Press, 1980).
MAIVAN CLECH
LAM
is
Assistant Director of the Law of the Sea Institute at the School of Law of the
University of Hawaii. She did graduate work in Southeast Asian Studies and in
anthropology at Yale University, and received her J.D. from the University of
Hawaii in 1984.
MARGARIDA
MARIA MOURA
is
Reader in social anthropology at the Universidade do Sao Paulo. She studied
social anthropology at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and received
her doctorate in Human Sciences at the Universidade de Sao Paulo in 1984. In
addition to articles on customary and official law in Brazil, she is the author
of a book on inheritance of land among Brazilian peasants (Os Herdeiros da
Terra, Sao Paulo, 1978) and co-author of books on agrarian problems and
fetes in rural Brazil (Evolucao, Recente e Situaçao Actual de Agricultura
Brasileira, Brasilia, 1979; A Morte e os Mortos na Sociedade Brasileira,
Sao Paulo, 1983).
KAREN
PORTIER
is
associated with the Institute of Folk Law of the Catholic University of
Nijmegen. She received her training in anthropology and her doctorate in law
(1981) from that university. Together with her husband, Herman Slaats, she
carried out legal anthropological research on kinship and adat law in the Karo
Batak society of North Sumatra (Indonesia) between 1973 and 1978; they conducted
a follow-up study in 1984. They are presently engaged in the study of legal
pluralism and the interaction of legal systems in Indonesia. Their publications
include their combined dissertation Grondenrecht en zijn Verwezenlijking in
de Karo Batakse Dorpssamenleving (Land Law and its Realization in Karo Batak
Village Society, with a summary in Indonesian and English) (1981), and Some
Notes on Administering Justice in Karoland, North Sumatra, Indonesia (1983).
HERMAN
SLAATS
is a
staff member of the Institute of Folk Law of the Catholic University of
Nijmegen. He studied law at that university, receiving his doctorate in 1981.
His research and writing has been conducted together with his wife, Karen
Portier.
FONS
STRIJBOSCH
is a
member of the Editorial Advisory Board of JLP. He is Director of the Institute
of Folk Law of the Catholic University of Nijmegen, and Executive Secretary of
the Commission on Folk Law and Legal Pluralism. He received his doctorate in law
in 1980, with a dissertation entitled Juristen en de Studie van Volksrecht in
Nederlands-Indi en Anglofoon Afrika (Lawyers and the Study of Folk Law in
the Dutch East Indies and Anglophone Africa). He conducted legal anthropological
research on Lombok, Indonesia, in the period 1971-1973. He has written on
litigation on Lombok and on legal pluralism in the Netherlands. He is presently
conducting field research on the indigenous system of law and dispute settlement
of Moluccan immigrants in the Netherlands.
GORDON
WOODMAN
is an
editor of JLP and a frequent contributor. See “About the Contributors” in issue
21 for fuller particulars.