Academic

Sezgin on Human Rights & Legal Pluralism

By Lawrence Solum

Yuksel Sezgin (Harvard Divinity School) has posted Human Rights and Legal Pluralism: Introduction to the Special Issue (Journal of Legal Pluralism, Vol. 60, pp. 17-20, 2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

Despite its prevalence in academic circles both as a sociological and political phenomenon - particularly among anthropologists, lawyers, social scientists and alike - legal pluralism has long been neglected by international organizations and donor agencies which have recognized solely the legal system of the state and systematically refused (on ideological as well as technical grounds) to engage with non-state or informal justice mechanisms. In recent years, however, we have been witnessing a resurgence of interest in legal pluralism outside of the academia, particularly in circles that can be broadly defined as 'programmatic communities'. These seem to be going through a major paradigm shift and gradually switching their lenses away from what Golub (2003) calls the state-centered orthodoxy of rule of law to non-state law and legal systems.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on March 17, 2011 (boomark / email).