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- When the victim’s family may pardon a killer: is that mercy built into law, or justice for sale?
Khalid Sahib, Somali xeer has the same structure, and I grew up hearing it argued. For a killing, the dead man's lineage could claim compensation, mag, traditionally counted in camels, and the ki…
- Courts should find customary law by asking communities what they do now, not by reading what colonial officials wrote down
For, from a family that settled disputes under xeer, Somali customary law. My grandfather was an elder. Xeer was never written down, and when colonial administrators and later governments tried to rec…