(1999) JLP 44: 1-14

IN MEMORY OF GEERT VAN DEN STEENHOVEN

Fons Strijbosch

Abstract

An obituary of Professor Geert van den Steenhoven (1919-98); Lecturer in the Theory of the Institutions in Developing Societies, 1963-1972,  Professor of Folk Law and Legal Development in Non-Western Societies, 1972-1981, University of Nijmegen; Founder of the Commission on Folk Law and Legal Pluralism (International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences).