This paper explores the hypothesis that groups' behaviour is greatly influenced by the societal environment in which they operate. It does so by looking at societal norms over three eras in developing countries, and the ways in which these affected behaviour at a micro-level as evidenced by the...

This book takes a stand against the narrowing focus of (German) jurisprudence on state law, rooted in the history of the territorially organised nation state. In the shadow of this tradition, state(-hood) law was only conceived of as state law. However, a gradual decoupling of state and law is...