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Contents

1. Introduction: The composite nature of Afro-Asiatic legal development
2. Modernization by codification in the systems of Muhammadan law
3. Codification as means of the reform and replacement of the tribal customary law traditions
4. Problems of codification in some modernized legal systems in Africa and Asia
5. Summary
Notes
About the author

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Blurb

Dr. Csaba Varga graduated in the Faculty of Law of the University of Pécs in 1965. From this year onwards he is research fellow of the Institute for Legal and Administrative Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1250 Budapest, Országház utca 30, P.O. B. 25), his scope of studies being the general theory of law. His papers have been published mainly in Hungarian in the periodicals "Állam- és Jogtudomány" and "Jogtudományi Közlöny". The present study is a chapter from his forthcoming, comprehensive work dealing with the comparative and historical problems of codification from the aspects of the theory of law.

Some of his papers in foreign languages include Quelques problèmes de la définition du droit dans la théorie socialiste du droit, in: Archives de Philosophie du Droit, XII (Paris, Sirey, 1967), 189-205.; Quelques questions méthodologiques de la formation des concepts en sciences juridiques, in: Archives de Philosophie du Droit, XVIII (Paris, Sirey, 1973), 215-241.; On the Socially Determined Nature of Legal Reasoning, Logique et Analyse (Louvain), 1973, Nos. 61-62, 21-78, reprinted in: Études de logique juridique, V, Brussels, Bruylant, 1973, 21-78.; The Birth of the New, Socialist Type of Codification, Acta Juridica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, XVII (1975), Nos. 1-2, 111-138. p.

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