Customary Law

About the Journal

Customary Law is a peer-reviewed scholarly publication dedicated to the study of customary legal systems, indigenous law, living law traditions, and socio-religious normative practices across diverse societies, promoting critical inquiry into the continuity, transformation, and interaction of customary norms within contemporary legal and social frameworks. The publication particularly encourages interdisciplinary and comparative scholarship examining the relationship between customary law, religious legal traditions, and community-based governance in local, national, and transnational contexts. It welcomes original research articles, conceptual papers, and theoretical studies related to: customary law theory, living law, legal anthropology, and legal sociology; indigenous legal systems, territorial rights, and community-based normative orders; legal pluralism and the interaction between state law, religious law, and customary norms; regional customary traditions, including Adat, African customary law, Pacific legal traditions, and other indigenous legal systems; and dialectics between customary law and Islamic legal traditions, including Sharīʿah-based social practices, living fiqh, and turāth-based legal reasoning. Customary Law prioritizes innovative and critically engaged scholarship that contributes to contemporary discussions on legal tradition, indigenous governance, socio-religious law, and restorative social order across diverse global societies.