Title
The Division of Legal Labor in Rural Haiti
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1975
ISSN
0506-7286
Publisher
Nomos
Language
en-US
Abstract
This paper explores the institutional facilities available to Haitian peasants for the settlement of their disputes. More specifically, it compares the institution of the Chef de Section - the lowest administrative appointee in the Haitian countryside and the Justice of the Peace - the lowest ranking judicial institution provided by the Haitian legal system. The paper further advances the hypothesis that at the present time there is a shift in the division of labor between the two institutions, in favor of the Justice of the Peace, and that this shift may be attributed to processes of social differentiation currently detectable in rural Haiti.
Recommended Citation
Pnina Lahav,
The Division of Legal Labor in Rural Haiti
,
in
8
Verfassung und Recht in Übersee VRÜ
465
(1975).
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