S.M. Otieno

S.M. Otieno
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1987
Genre: Burial laws (Luo law)
ISBN:

Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard)

Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard)
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 34
Release: 1996-05-14
Genre:
ISBN:

The official records of the proceedings of the Legislative Council of the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya, the House of Representatives of the Government of Kenya and the National Assembly of the Republic of Kenya.

The Future of African Customary Law

The Future of African Customary Law
Author: Jeanmarie Fenrich
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 563
Release: 2011-07-18
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1139497820

This book promotes discussion and understanding of customary law and explores its continued relevance in sub-Saharan Africa. It considers the characteristics of customary law and efforts to ascertain and codify customary law, and how this body of law differs in content, form and status from legislation and common law.

The Combing of History

The Combing of History
Author: David William Cohen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 1994-06-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226112780

How is historical knowledge produced? And how do silence and forgetting figure in the knowledge we call history? Taking us through time and across the globe, David William Cohen's exploration of these questions exposes the circumstantial nature of history. His investigation uncovers the conventions and paradigms that govern historical knowledge and historical texts and reveals the economic, social, and political forces at play in the production of history. Drawing from a wide range of examples, including African legal proceedings, German and American museum exhibits, Native American commemorations, public and academic debates, and scholarly research, David William Cohen explores the "walls and passageways" between academic and non-academic productions of history.

The Future of Tradition

The Future of Tradition
Author: Leon Shaskolsky Sheleff
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 521
Release: 2013-09-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136326081

Recent years have seen an increased interest in the variety of cultures co-existing within one state, and a growing acknowledgement of the values ensconced in pluralistic social structures. this book examines the manner in which indigenous people can function in modern states, preserving their traditional customs, while simultaneously adapting aspects of their culture to the challenges posed by modern life. Whereas it was formerly assumed that these tribal frameworks were doomed to extinction, and some states even encouraged such a process, there has been a revival in their vitality, linked to a recognition of their rights. The book offers a comprehensive survey of various aspects of tribal life, focusing on political issues such as the meaning of sovereignty, legal issues dealing with the role of custom and social issues concerned with sustaining communal life. A focused study is made of a whole series of legal factors, relating to possession and ownership of land, religious rites, the nature of polygamous marriages, the assertion of group rites, the manner of peacefully resolving disputes and allied questions. Recent judicial decisions are analysed as a reflection of the far-reaching changes that have taken place, in a process that has seen the former disregard of basic rights of indigenous people being replaced by an awareness of the injustices perpetrated in the past and a willingness to seek to redress them. The comparison between approaches of different English-speaking countries provides an account of interwoven developments.

Globalisation and Legal Theory

Globalisation and Legal Theory
Author: William Twining
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2000-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780521605946

The text makes the case for a revival of general jurisprudence in response to globalisation.

Sepsis Management in Resource-limited Settings

Sepsis Management in Resource-limited Settings
Author: Arjen M. Dondorp
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2019-02-08
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3030031438

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. It constitutes a unique source of knowledge and guidance for all healthcare workers who care for patients with sepsis and septic shock in resource-limited settings. More than eighty percent of the worldwide deaths related to sepsis occur in resource-limited settings in low and middle-income countries. Current international sepsis guidelines cannot be implemented without adaptations towards these settings, mainly because of the difference in local resources and a different spectrum of infectious diseases causing sepsis. This prompted members of the Global Intensive Care working group of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) and the Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU, Bangkok, Thailand) - among which the Editors – to develop with an international group of experts a comprehensive set of recommendations for the management of sepsis in resource-limited settings. Recommendations are based on both current scientific evidence and clinical experience of clinicians working in resource-limited settings. The book includes an overview chapter outlining the current challenges and future directions of sepsis management as well as general recommendations on the structure and organization of intensive care services in resource-limited settings. Specific recommendations on the recognition and management of patients with sepsis and septic shock in these settings are grouped into seven chapters. The book provides evidence-based practical guidance for doctors in low and middle income countries treating patients with sepsis, and highlights areas for further research and discussion.