Institutional Scale
Empirical parameters of customary law
Quantitative and structural benchmarks illustrating the longevity and rigor of oral jurisprudence.
Executive Summary
Six core findings before the dossier
The core mechanics of social order without a coercive bureaucratic state apparatus.
System Architecture
The 6 algorithmic mechanisms of Customary Law
From reputational co-juror collateral to buried charcoal and pastoral dairy accounting.
Interactive Test
Customary Law Simulator: The Algorithm of Custom
Explore documented historical disputes and test how the assembly of elders resolved cases without written codes.
Structural Comparison
Customary Law vs Roman Law vs Napoleonic Code
Comparative analysis across seven fundamental legal and institutional dimensions.
Theoretical Bridge
Elinor Ostrom's 8 Principles in the Carpathian Commons
How archaic village commons anticipated Nobel prize-winning commons governance theory.
Documentary Records
Documented Archival Dossiers (1632–1780)
Historical legal trials from Vrancea, Câmpulung, and Neamț.
Epistemic Calibration
Calibrated inferences: evidence and counter-hypotheses
Rigorous demarcation between archival facts and sociological inferences.
Historical Vulnerabilities
Where customary law encountered its limits
Structural fragilities of oral legal order when facing modern state centralization.