In his Fourth Report on the Identification of Customary International Law (2016), Special Rapporteur Sir Michael Wood confirmed that '[i]n certain cases, the practice of international organizations ...

With its currently fuzzy definition, customary law provides domestic courts with the flexibility to (mostly) interpret the application of these laws for their own countries.

JAKARTA — The Indonesian government has launched an official map of customary forests, the first of its kind in the country, in a bid to protect them from land grabs. The map identifies more ...

Despite the new laws of succession, practices under customary law could still deny inheritance rights to some legitimate heirs, particularly widows and extramarital children.

Customary laws in the northeastern states of India are failing to protect indigenous lands and must be reformed to safeguard the property of women and poorer tribal people, land rights analysts ...