(Sample for Testing) Legal Pluralism and Indigeneity in Sabah and Sarawak: Issues and Challenges
CONCEPT NOTE
This conference situates legal pluralism between pluriversality and everyday lived experience in coping with diverse systems. Issues of indigenous law jurisprudence, native laws and custons and institutional processes and jurisdictional issues, family and personal law, and often problematic relationship between state law, customary law, and religious law continues to affect dailt lives. New challenges in contemporay society including natural resources governance, environmental justice, intercultural intergenerational justice and social challenges warrant interdisciplinary exploration of how these are dealt with through interplay of constitutional, legislative and indigenous knowledge systems.
OBJECTIVE
To identify the issues surrounding legal pluralism with a pecific emphasis on indigeneity; Explore the jurisprudential basis of customs and customary laws and institutional, jurisdictional within constitutional legal pluralism; Deal with the intercultural and intergenerational issues that are embedded in environmental governance, lands and resource management and access rights; Build understanding on the substance as well as methodology of indigenous traditional knowledge.
PANELS
Panel 1: Constitutinal Legal Pluralism and Indigeneity
Panel 2: Native Law, Customs and Customary Institutions
Panel 3: Access, Governance of Lands and Natural Resources and Environmental Justice
Location:
Dayak Cultural Foundation
3rd Floor, Dayak Cultural Foundation, Tower A, Lot 3492 Block 10 KCLD Jalan Ong Tiang Swee
Kuching
,
Sarawak 93200