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  1. Legal Pluralism in Theory and Practice

    In developing countries, for instance, non-state justice systems often handle most disputes and retain substantial autonomy and authority. Legal pluralism's importance, however, is rarely recognized and dramatically under theorized. This article advances scholarly understanding of legal pluralism both theoretically and empirically.

  2. Rethinking the Rethinking of Legal Pluralism: Toward a Manifesto for a

    A victim of its own success. As mentioned earlier, legal pluralism is a remarkably successful concept. Because of its relevance to diverse subject matters and contexts, and because of its appropriation by scholars from a plentitude of disciplines—legal anthropology, legal history, comparative law, jurisprudence, sociology, political science, development studies, management, and so on—the ...

  3. Legal Pluralism

    Legal pluralism is a central theme in the reconceptual-. ization of the law/society relation. Early twentieth century studies examined indigenous law ways among tribal and village peoples in colonized societies in Af-. rica, Asia, and the Pacific. Social scientists (primarily anthropolo-.

  4. Legal Pluralism

    Legal pluralism has been identified and studied in relation to colonial and postcolonial societies where it is common for an imposed legal system to co-exist and interconnect with customary, indigenous and/or religious laws. Scholars have also extended the idea to states apparently governed by a single state-based legal system, where non-state ...

  5. What is a Critical Legal Pluralism?

    This essay considers the epistemological foundations of both legal pluralism and the legal monist image of law against which its proponents are reacting. It argues that contemporary pluralistic imaginations rest on the same impoverished view of law and its subjects that sustains the traditional claim that law comprises only the processes and ...

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    South Africa provides us with an interesting case study of legal pluralism, among others because of the many connections and interrelations between the state justice system and customary justice systems. ... Essays in Law and Social Change, edited by Aninka Claassens and Dee Smythe. pp. 100-117. Cape Town: Juta and Co. Google Scholar ...

  7. Legal pluralism, social theory, and the state

    1. Introduction. Long rejected in legal studies, the term legal pluralism has seen a remarkable rise of interest since the turn of the century. Now legal pluralist approaches both reflect and produce new perspectives on the role of the state in plural legal orders. This article focuses on the role of state law and discusses significant stages ...

  8. Courts and Pluralism: Essay on a Theory of Judicial Adjudication in the

    Internal pluralism refers to a pluralism that is internal to a particular legal order. In other words, it refers to a legal order where multiple sites of power coexist, are mutually recognized, and may not always be organized in a nonhierarchical relationship. The best-known example of such a legal order is the European Union.

  9. Understanding Legal Pluralism: Past to Present, Local to Global

    It is drawn from and combines the insights produced in legal anthropology, comparative law, international law, and globalization studies, in the hope that the framework can provide common ground for a cross-disciplinary focus on legal pluralism. This article was delivered as the 2007 Julius Stone Address at the University of Sydney School of Law.

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    A study of Muslims in England, for. 33 Tamanaha, above n26 at 125-127. 34 See Adelle Blackett, 'Global Governance, Legal Pluralism and the Decentered State: A Labor Law Critique of Codes of Corporate Conduct' (2000-2001) 8 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 401.

  11. The Promise and Conundrums of Pluralist Jurisprudence

    Jurisprudence is the latest field to take up legal pluralism. In Pursuit of Pluralist Jurisprudence (2017), edited by Nicole Roughan and Andrew Halpin, is a collection of essays on the topic by a stellar cast of jurisprudents. A fresh breeze is sweeping through legal theory, shaking old verities, opening new vistas.

  12. Legal pluralism across the global South: colonial origins and

    Notwithstanding innumerable variations and changes across locations and over time, the essay shows that legal pluralism across the Global South constitutes a distinct, enduring social-historical formation with shared structural features that must be understood on its own terms. The essay is written for scholars, government officials ...

  13. Legal Pluralism: Multiple Systems, Multiple Challenges

    Examines the extent to which countries in Sub-Saharan Africa define the hierarchy of customary, statutory, and religious laws, using case law to illustrate how courts have interpreted cases at the intersections of different sources of law and conflicting provisions on the books. Case law, itself a formal source of law in common law systems and an integral part of the legal landscape, can shape ...

  14. Legal Pluralism

    Legal Pluralism. The traditional view of law rested on the Western hegemonic assumption that "positive state law is the solution to all differences"1 and that there is only one neutral universal law. However, extensive legal anthropology would suggest that diversity and pluralism in the law has existed since the medieval period2.

  15. Legal Theory in Africa: Between Legal Centralism and Legal Pluralism

    The African legal universe is difficult to capture through the lens of legal centralism and legal pluralism. While the former excludes the pre-colonial African legal experience, the latter blurs the post-colonial legal dynamics. ... The Concept of Law (OUP 1994) 79. ibid. ibid 91-99. 22 Neil MacCormick, Institutions of Law: An Essay in Legal ...

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    legal pluralism in South Africa, or one could even go back so far as to blame it all on colonialism.7 Whatever the rationale for the survival of deep legal pluralism in South Africa, legal pluralism is more than a simple juristic peculiarity; it is a reality that is closely interwoven with the daily lives of all South Africans. The

  17. Review Essay: Legal Pluralism in Indonesia by Melissa Crouch

    This review essay situates Lukito's historical study of the co-existence of different legal orders in Indonesia within the literature on legal pluralism in general, and on Indonesia in particular. It then considers Lukito's analysis of an important period of legal development in Indonesia, from colonialism until the 1990s. undefined.

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    The Dalai Lama stated that "In every religion, there are transcendent things that are beyond the grasp of our mind and speech. Cultural Assimilation and Ethnic Pluralism. Hence, the minority groups adopt the norms and the traditions of the locals so that the latter are enabled to preserve the habitual environment.

  19. Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis

    This journal was first published in 1969, under the title African Law Studies (issues 1-18). From 1981 it appeared under the title Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law. From 2013, it appear in volume format (Volume 45 onwards). From 2022, it is titled Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis. The journal publishes three issues a ...

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  21. Legal Pluralism Explained: History, Theory, Consequences

    Legal pluralism is a subject of discussion today in legal anthropology, legal sociology, legal history, comparative law, international law, transnational law, jurisprudence, and law and development scholarship. This book places legal pluralism in historical context going back to the Medieval period, describes the origins of legal pluralism in ...

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  24. The Oxford Handbook of Global Legal Pluralism

    As such, it is a must-have for scholars and students seeking to understand the insights of legal pluralism to contemporary debates about law. Keywords: global legal pluralism, legal regimes, state law, nonstate law, jurisdictional entities, legal systems, quasi-legal systems, legal pluralism, transnational law.

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    A state that's proud to have been the home state of the founding papers of the United Nations. We're a pluralistic state that practices pluralism. And we're a state that at our best — not always — but at our best, we believe the world, in many respects, looks to us to see that it's possible to live together and advance together ...