Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Part One: Customary Law in Perspective -- 1 Anthropology: Custom in Preliterate Societies -- Theories of Custom in the Law of Preliterate Societies -- Proof, Applications, and Evolutions of Preliterate Custom -- Transitions from Preliterate to Literate Legal Cultures -- 2 Culture: The Western Legal Tradition of Positivism -- Custom in Roman Law -- Custom in the Medieval ius Commune -- Custom and the Historical School -- 3 History: The Common Law and Custom -- The Pre-Blackstonian Epoch -- Blackstone's Customary Moment -- Blackstone's Influence: Bentham and American Common Law -- 4 Economics, Sociobiology, and Psychology: The Human Impulse of Custom -- Custom as Functional -- Custom as Social Control -- Custom as Efficient -- Custom as Antilaw -- Part Two: Custom in Domestic Legal Systems -- 5 Family Law -- Customary Family Law as "Invented Tradition" -- Customary Family Law in Pluralistic Legal Systems -- Transforming Customary Family Law -- 6 Property -- Indigenous Custom and Property Rights -- Customary Easements and the Paradox of Judicial Takings -- 7 Contracts -- The Common Law of Commercial Custom -- Llewellyn's Moment: The UCC's Codification of Trade Custom -- The Post-Llewellyn Reaction -- 8 Torts -- Custom as a Sword and Shield in Tort -- Custom and Negligence, Efficiency and Public Policy -- 9 Constitutional Law -- English Constitutional Custom -- "Under Color of … Custom" and Official Authority -- "Practical Construction" and Separation-of-Powers Disputes -- Part Three: Custom in International Law -- 10 Private International Law: International Commercial Usage -- Historical Roots of the lex Mercatoria and lex Maritima -- The Positivist Revolution and Cross-Border Trade Usages -- International Trade Usages in Anglo-American Case-Law.

Usage in International Codifications -- Commercial Custom and the "New" Lex Mercatoria -- 11 Public International Law: Custom Among Nations -- Trends and Moments for Customary International Law -- Formation of Customary International Law -- Regional and Special Custom -- Acquiescence and Objection -- Customary International Law and Treaties -- Change and Death for Customary International Law -- A New Synthesis for Customary International Law -- Conclusion: How and Why Custom Endures -- False Constraints on Custom -- The Elements of Custom -- Custom's True Limits -- Custom's Deep Jurisprudential Foundations -- Notes -- Preface -- 1. Anthropology -- 2. Culture -- 3. History -- 4. Economics, Sociobiology, and Psychology -- 5. Family Law -- 6. Property -- 7. Contracts -- 8. Torts -- 9. Constitutional Law -- 10. Private International Law -- 11. Public International Law -- Conclusion -- Index.