Indigenising Private Law: Lessons from Samoa

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aut.relation.endpage126
aut.relation.journalJournal of Commonwealth Law
aut.relation.pages25
aut.relation.startpage101
aut.relation.volume4
dc.contributor.authorFa’amatuainu, Bridget
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-04T23:35:03Z
dc.date.available2023-12-04T23:35:03Z
dc.date.issued2023-01-10
dc.description.abstractLegally pluralistic societies such as Samoa face a challenge: the legacy of colonialism, including in law-school curricula. In 2019, the National University of Samoa delivered its first Customary Adjudication programme with core topics including Legal Professional Ethics and Customary Law—a programme that I helped design and deliver. However, for the time being, indigenous law remains virtually non-existent in law-school curricula. This paper critically reviews the existing framework for the teaching of private law in Samoa and discuss how law schools could incorporate indigenous private law to a greater degree. It explores approaches adopted in the Pacific to review and reform local private law, while not pedagogical in nature, it carries potential for informing the integration of indigenous materials into the design and delivery of private- law papers. Accordingly, this paper represents a concrete contribution to the ongoing process of decolonisation in the Pacific region.
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Commonwealth Law, ISSN: 2563-6448 (Print), 4, 101-126.
dc.identifier.issn2563-6448
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10292/17021
dc.publisherMatthew P Harrington
dc.relation.urihttps://www.journalofcommonwealthlaw.org/article/67901-indigenising-private-law-lessons-from-samoa
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dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.subjectIndigenous cultural competency
dc.subjectprivate law
dc.subjectlegal education
dc.subjectSamoa
dc.subjectfa’asamoa
dc.subjectteu le vā
dc.titleIndigenising Private Law: Lessons from Samoa
dc.typeJournal Article
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