The American Legal System and Micronesian Customary Law: the Legal Legacy of the United States to the New Nations of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
Arnett II, James Robert (1985). "The American Legal System and Micronesian Customary Law: the Legal Legacy of the United States to the New Nations of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands". UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal. 4 (1–2). doi:10.5070/P841-2021925. ISSN 0884-0768.
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Abstract: The United States may be on the threshold of terminating a United Nations "strategic" trusteeship' under which it has administered a vast number of Pacific island communities since World War II. Many aspects of the administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI) have been critically scrutinized. The United States has been charged with economic neglect 2 and maintaining an "anthropologic zoo"' 3 in the period before the early 1960's. The rapidly rising level of appropriations since 1962 combined with United States education policies have created societies economically dependent on the United States,4 ostensibly to keep the islands firmly within the United States political orbit. The introduction of a political structure based on the American system has also been criticized as undermining the traditional leadership and creating a "new elite" more closely aligned with United States interests.6 The foreseeable emergence of four new international entities 7 from Micronesia" provides an opportunity to review the impact and performance of the legal system introduced by the United States, an integral element of its administration that has received little attention to date. This note examines the legal systems that have evolved under United States tutelage in Micronesia and, more particularly, the interplay between Micronesian customs and customary law and an American legal system and jurisprudential concepts...
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