Samisk rätt och rättsskipning – En studie av samernas juridiska system och hur det påverkades av den svenska kolonisationen
(2018) LAGF03 20182Department of Law
Faculty of Law
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Samerna har status som urfolk i Sverige och tros ha levt här i tusentals års. Trots detta är delar av deras äldre historia förhållandevis outforskad, särskilt från ett rättshistoriskt perspektiv. Detta gäller i synnerhet det ursprungliga samiska samhället och deras rättsliga förhållanden. Fokus i den här uppsatsen är att undersöka hur samernas juridiska system såg ut innan de samiska områdena koloniserades av svenska staten samt hur kolonisationen gick till ur ett rättsligt perspektiv.
Hur de samiska samhällena var uppbyggda och hur deras rättsskipning fungerade är omdiskuterat. Tidigare ansågs de inom forskningen ha haft ett förhållandevis utvecklat rättssystem, men nya rön på området har lett till ifrågasättande av detta. På grund av... (More) - Samerna har status som urfolk i Sverige och tros ha levt här i tusentals års. Trots detta är delar av deras äldre historia förhållandevis outforskad, särskilt från ett rättshistoriskt perspektiv. Detta gäller i synnerhet det ursprungliga samiska samhället och deras rättsliga förhållanden. Fokus i den här uppsatsen är att undersöka hur samernas juridiska system såg ut innan de samiska områdena koloniserades av svenska staten samt hur kolonisationen gick till ur ett rättsligt perspektiv.
Hur de samiska samhällena var uppbyggda och hur deras rättsskipning fungerade är omdiskuterat. Tidigare ansågs de inom forskningen ha haft ett förhållandevis utvecklat rättssystem, men nya rön på området har lett till ifrågasättande av detta. På grund av bristen på källmaterial går det inte att dra några säkra slutsatser, men det material som finns pekar på att samerna löste sina tvister på gemensamma ting eller genom att anlita en äldre och visare person som rättskipare.
Under 1500–1600-talet ökade statens närvaro på de samiska områdena som en del av tidens expansionspolitik. Statlig rättskipning infördes stegvis, först genom att kungliga fogdar som agerade domare. När den judiciella revolutionen inträdde under 1600-talet skedde en allmän professionalisering inom rättsväsendet som ledde till att fler domstolar upprättades runt om i Norrland. Resultatet av denna utveckling var att den egna samiska rättsskipningen gradvis försvann. De samiska rättsuppfattningarna fortsatte dock att ha en betydelse eftersom samerna i stor utsträckning kom att agera som nämndemän i domstolarna. Genom deras delaktighet fortsatte samisk sedvanerätt ha inflytande på rättsskipningen i norra Sverige. (Less) - Abstract
- The Sami have indigenous status in Sweden and are believed to have lived here for thousands of years. Nevertheless, parts of their older history is relatively unexplored, especially from a legal-historical perspective. This applies in particular to the original Sami society and its legal conditions. The focus of this paper is to investigate how the legal systems of the Sami worked before their lands were colonized by the Swedish state and what the colonization entailed from a legal perspective.
It is still debated how the Sami communities might have been structured and how their legal system worked. Previously, they were considered to have had a relatively well-developed internal legal system, but recent research questions this.... (More) - The Sami have indigenous status in Sweden and are believed to have lived here for thousands of years. Nevertheless, parts of their older history is relatively unexplored, especially from a legal-historical perspective. This applies in particular to the original Sami society and its legal conditions. The focus of this paper is to investigate how the legal systems of the Sami worked before their lands were colonized by the Swedish state and what the colonization entailed from a legal perspective.
It is still debated how the Sami communities might have been structured and how their legal system worked. Previously, they were considered to have had a relatively well-developed internal legal system, but recent research questions this. Pertinent historical sources are few, which is why it is difficult to draw any definite conclusions, but the material that exists indicates that the Sami settled their disputes through assemblies, things, or with the aid of an older and wiser person as judge.
During the 1500–1600s, the presence of the Swedish state in the Sami areas increased as part of the expansion policy of the time. State justice was introduced gradually, first by royal bailiffs acting as judges. With the judicial revolution of the 17th century followed a general professionalization in the judiciary which led to more courts being established in Norrland. The result of this development was that the indigenous legal order gradually disappeared. The Sami legal perceptions, however, continued to have a significance because the Sami largely acted as board members in the courts. Their participation ensured the continued influence of Sami customary law on the legal order in the north of Sweden. (Less)
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- author
- Öhnström, Iris LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- LAGF03 20182
- year
- 2018
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- rättshistoria, samer, samerätt
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 8965680
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abstract = {{The Sami have indigenous status in Sweden and are believed to have lived here for thousands of years. Nevertheless, parts of their older history is relatively unexplored, especially from a legal-historical perspective. This applies in particular to the original Sami society and its legal conditions. The focus of this paper is to investigate how the legal systems of the Sami worked before their lands were colonized by the Swedish state and what the colonization entailed from a legal perspective.
It is still debated how the Sami communities might have been structured and how their legal system worked. Previously, they were considered to have had a relatively well-developed internal legal system, but recent research questions this. Pertinent historical sources are few, which is why it is difficult to draw any definite conclusions, but the material that exists indicates that the Sami settled their disputes through assemblies, things, or with the aid of an older and wiser person as judge.
During the 1500–1600s, the presence of the Swedish state in the Sami areas increased as part of the expansion policy of the time. State justice was introduced gradually, first by royal bailiffs acting as judges. With the judicial revolution of the 17th century followed a general professionalization in the judiciary which led to more courts being established in Norrland. The result of this development was that the indigenous legal order gradually disappeared. The Sami legal perceptions, however, continued to have a significance because the Sami largely acted as board members in the courts. Their participation ensured the continued influence of Sami customary law on the legal order in the north of Sweden.}},
author = {{Öhnström, Iris}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Samisk rätt och rättsskipning – En studie av samernas juridiska system och hur det påverkades av den svenska kolonisationen}},
year = {{2018}},
}