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The Leiden Legacy: Concepts of Law in Indonesia.(Book review)
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The Leiden Legacy: Concepts of Law in Indonesia. By Peter Burns. Leiden: KITLV, 2004. xvi, 269 pp.
The Leiden Legacy is a particularly apt title. "Discovery" of Indonesian customary law (adat recht), eloquently defended by Cornelis Van Vollenhoven (1874-1932), and its utilization by the Netherlands East Indies government provoked acrimonious academic and administrative debates both within and between Leiden and Utrecht University schools of thought. More important in long-term perspectives, the legacy is part of the relationship existing between adat law and the nationalist ...
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