Features of the legal nature of customary law
Abstract
The article investigates the features of the legal nature of customary law from the perspective of ethnographic theory of law (ethnic legal studies). On the base of Russian and foreign sources the essence of the customary law is substantiated, the legal owner of which are people (ethnos), providing understanding of multiple legal categories, regulated most important spheres of their livehood. Customary law studies are done on the base of civilization approach to historical-legal development of the institutions as reflection of legal values of the particular ethnos.
Received: 05/01/2021
Accepted: 06/01/2021
Accepted date: 06/30/2021
Keywords: customary law; legal custom; ethnographic theory of law; ethnic legal studies
Available in the on-line version with: 30.06.2020
