The New Human Rights-Based Huricompatisation Model of Ascertainment of Indigenous Customary Law: Strategies for Adequate Local and Global Public Access Book and eBook (Volume 2)

The New Human Rights-Based Huricompatisation Model of Ascertainment of Indigenous Customary Law: Strategies for Adequate Local and Global Public Access Book and eBook (Volume 2)

Copyright © 2021 By Dr. Leesi Ebenezer Mitee

Book Citation

Leesi Ebenezer Mitee, The New Human Rights-Based Huricompatisation Model of Ascertainment of Indigenous Customary Law: Strategies for Adequate Local and Global Public Access, Volume 2, Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Book Series (Publisher: Koinonia Legal Research and Book Publishing, Tilburg, The Netherlands 2020)

Book Title

The New Human Rights-Based Huricompatisation Model of Ascertainment of Indigenous Customary Law: Strategies for Adequate Local and Global Public Access

Book Series

Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Book Series

Book Formats

ISBN 9789083108568 eBook or e-Book (digital or electronic book that you can read on your mobile phone, tablet, eReader, laptop, desktop computers, etc.)

ISBN 9789083108544 (Paperback)

Publisher: Koinonia Legal Research and Book Publishing, Tilburg, The Netherlands

Book Author

Dr. Leesi Ebenezer Mitee
Dr. Leesi Ebenezer Mitee is an Associate Professor of Law. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) with specialisation in international human rights law, legal information technology (an aspect of legal informatics, which is the application of information technology to legal processes and legal information systems), indigenous customary law, and indigenous rights; Master of Laws (LLM) in comparative access to public legal information in the United Kingdom and Nigeria; postgraduate professional legal practice certificate (BL); Bachelor of Laws (BL); Higher National Diploma (HND) in Town & Country planning (Urban & Regional Planning); Member, Nigerian Bar Association; Fellow, Society for Advanced Legal Studies (United Kingdom); Member, Internet Society (United States); Member, American Indigenous Research Association (United States)

Book Publication Information

The book, The New Human Rights-Based Huricompatisation Model of Ascertainment of Indigenous Customary Law: Strategies for Adequate Local and Global Public Access (Volume 2 of the Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Book Series) is in the publishing process.

Information on its publication, sale, and online access outlets will be published here, as soon as the book is published and available for global distribution.

Table of Contents (Chapters)

Chapter 9: The Meaning and Forms of Indigenous Customary Law

Chapter 10: The Right of Public Access to Indigenous Customary Law and the Concept of Ascertainment

Chapter 11: The Human Rights-Based Approach as a Conceptual Framework and a Universal Mechanism for the Management of Social Projects

Chapter 12: Huricompatisation as the New Human Rights-Based and Public Access-Adequate Model of Ascertainment of Indigenous Customary Law

Chapter 13: The Legal Framework for the Implementation of the New Huricompatisation Model of Ascertainment of Indigenous Customary Law Projects

Book Description (Abstract)

In response to the growing global prominence of indigenous rights and the right of every person to know the laws that regulate the person’s conduct and activities, this pioneering book, The New Human Rights-Based Huricompatisation Model of Ascertainment of Indigenous Customary Law: Strategies for Adequate Local and Global Public Access (Volume 2 of the Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Book Series), examines how adequate public access to the unwritten rules of indigenous customary law can be achieved in such a way that the method of providing that access also complies with the general human rights and the specific rights of indigenous communities (indigenous peoples).

The theory of legal certainty provided the theoretical framework for this book, an aspect of which is the concept of ascertainment of indigenous customary law. The other specific relevant concepts are the rule of law and the doctrine of ignorance of the law is no excuse. The United Nations-endorsed human rights-based approach (HRBA) provided the conceptual framework for analysing the human-rights requirements of the model ascertainment method, while the specific requirements for adequate public access to indigenous customary law were formulated from existing literature.

The findings of the study include the following: There are four existing methods of ascertainment of unwritten indigenous customary law, namely judicialization, codification, restatement, and self-statement; and those methods neither provide adequate public access to indigenous customary law nor protect the human rights and indigenous rights of the communities affected by the ascertainment of their law.

To provide an alternative to the existing deficient methods of ascertainment, this book develops the human rights-compliant and public access-adequate new model of ascertainment of indigenous customary law (acronymed as huricompatisation). Huricompatisation incorporates a mix of twelve relevant general human rights and specific indigenous rights into ten essential requirements for adequate public access to indigenous customary law.

This book argues that huricompatisation satisfies the need of the members of indigenous communities to know the applicable rules of their indigenous customary law and that it also preserves the evolving and adaptive nature of that law. Further, huricompatisation protects their general human rights (e.g. the right to a fair trial) and their specific indigenous rights which include their omnibus right to self-determination that encompasses their rights to self-governance in their internal affairs, culture, and indigenous identity. Additionally, huricompatisation provides the opportunity for unprecedented free public access to indigenous customary law from indigenous communities worldwide, some of which exist in modern urban cities like London.

The United Nations, regional bodies, governments at all levels, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organisations, other policymakers who work on indigenous matters, and indigenous communities will benefit from the law-reform utility and policy relevance of this book that extends the frontiers of the right of free access to public legal information to indigenous customary law globally.

Keywords: Huricompatisation indigenous customary law ascertainment; Right of free access to public legal information; Right of public access to indigenous customary law; Customary law judicialization; Customary law codification; Customary law restatement; Customary law self-statement

The New English Legal Word “Huricompatisation”: Its Pronunciation And Origin

The Pronunciation Of The New Legal Word “Huricompatisation”

Click the play arrow button below to hear Leesi Ebenezer Mitee’s recording of the pronunciation of his new English legal word “huricompatisation”.

The Origin Of The New Legal Word “Huricompatisation”

The origin of the new word “huricompatisation” and its concept are discussed exhaustively in Dr. Leesi Ebenezer Mitee’s upcoming book, The New Human Rights-Based Huricompatisation Model of Ascertainment of Indigenous Customary Law: Strategies for Adequate Local and Global Public Access, Volume 2 of Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Book Series (Publisher: Koinonia Legal Research and Book Publishing, Tilburg, The Netherlands 2020).

Books and eBooks in the Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Book Series

Volume 1: Developments in Human Rights Law and the Proposed Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information: The New Human Rights-Advocacy Approach and the Ten Criteria for the Formal Recognition of New Human Rights (click here)

Volume 2: The New Human Rights-Based Huricompatisation Model of Ascertainment of Indigenous Customary Law: Strategies for Adequate Local and Global Public Access (click here)

Volume 3: Innovative Technological Mechanisms for Adequate Web-Based Access to National and Global Public Legal Information (click here)

Volume 4: A Model Empirical Study of the Current State of Governmental Provision of Free Access to Nigerian Public Legal Information (click here)

Information on the availability of all the books in the Series is available on The Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Advocacy (HURAPLA)  website (https://publiclegalinformation.com) that also contains valuable public legal information resources. Contact email: info@koinonialegal.com

Copyright © 2021 By Dr. Leesi Ebenezer Mitee