Journal•ISSN: 0732-9113
The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law
Taylor & Francis
About: The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Legal pluralism & Human rights. Over the lifetime, 547 publications have been published receiving 7811 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, what is legal pluralism? The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law: Vol. 18, No. 24, pp. 1-55.
Abstract: (1986). What is Legal Pluralism? The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law: Vol. 18, No. 24, pp. 1-55.
1,086 citations
TL;DR: The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law: Vol. 13, No. 19, pp. 1-47 as mentioned in this paper, is a collection of articles from 1981.
Abstract: (1981). Justice in many Rooms: Courts, Private Ordering, and Indigenous Law. The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law: Vol. 13, No. 19, pp. 1-47.
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TL;DR: In the roughly thirty years in which the concept legal pluralism has been used in legal and social scientific writings on complex normative systems, the discussion is increasingly dominated by the exchange of conceptual a priori's and stereotypes.
Abstract: In the roughly thirty years in which the concept legal pluralism has been used in legal and social scientific writings on complex normative systems, the concept has become a subject of emotionally loaded debates. Though originally introduced with modest ambition as a ’sensitizing’ concept, drawing attention to the probability and frequent existence of parallel or duplicatory legal regulations of the same domain of social action or organisation within one political organisation, the discussion is increasingly dominated by the exchange of conceptual a priori’s and stereotypes as well as by cliches over those who use them. Rather than looking at the heuristic value of the concept in use, for describing, analysing and evaluating empirical complex normative situations, the conceptual struggles tends to create two camps, effacing the many differences in assumptions and approaches to law in society. Starting with Tamanaha’s paper on the folly of legal pluralism (1993), one can even observe the emergence ...
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TL;DR: In this article, forum shopping and shopping forums: Dispute processing in a Minangkabau Village in West Sumatra, Indonesia. The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law: Vol. 13, No. 19, pp. 117-159.
Abstract: (1981). Forum Shopping and Shopping Forums: Dispute Processing in a Minangkabau Village in West Sumatra. The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law: Vol. 13, No. 19, pp. 117-159.
270 citations
TL;DR: The work of the Project Group Legal Pluralism at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle aims to continue the rapid expansion of recent decades of studies of legal pluralism.
Abstract: This paper introduces this Special Number. The work of the Project Group Legal Pluralism at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle aims to continue the rapid expansion of recent decades of studies of legal pluralism. The recently much discussed phenomenon of globalisation has provoked a wide variety of local responses. Encounters are occurring between state laws, transnational laws, customary laws and religious laws, all of which are liable as a result to be transformed by processes of adaptation, appropriation and vulgarisation. This may lead to increasing pluralisation of laws, but can also in some cases produce homogenisation, or de-pluralisation.The notion of ‘law’ should not be limited to state, international and transnational law, but should be used to refer to all those objectified cognitive and normative conceptions for which validity for a certain social formation is authoritatively asserted. Law becomes manifest in many forms, and is comprised of a variety of social ph...
151 citations