This book takes us far beyond the usual focus of comparative law with analysis of a broad range of jurisdictions, including mixtures of common and civil law, and also those mixing Islamic and/or traditional legal systems with those derived from common and/or civil law traditions…
This book investigates the dynamic intertwinement of law and morality, with a focus on new and developing fields of law. Taking as its starting point the debates and mutual misunderstandings between proponents of different philosophical traditions, it argues that this theoretica…
"We live in a world of legal pluralism, where a single act or actor is potentially regulated by multiple legal or quasi-legal regimes imposed by state, substate, transnational, supranational, and nonstate communities. Navigating these spheres of complex overlapping legal authori…
"We live in a world of legal pluralism, where a single act or actor is potentially regulated by multiple legal or quasi-legal regimes imposed by state, substate, transnational, supranational, and nonstate communities. Navigating these spheres of complex overlapping legal authori…
Proposes a multidisciplinary approach that seeks to grapple with the pluralist reality rather than ignoring it.
Pluralist arguments are increasingly common in political and legal theory, but scepticism persists about whether pluralism marks a distinct intellectual tradition. This book reconstructs the pluralist tradition in political theory, arguing that it makes distinctive and radical c…
The structure of pluralism
by Muñiz Fraticelli, Victor Manuel
fromOxford constitutional theory
Pluralist arguments are increasingly common in political and legal theory, but scepticism persists about whether pluralism marks a distinct intellectual tradition. This book reconstructs the pluralist tradition in political theory, arguing that it makes distinctive and radical c…
The structure of pluralism
by Muñiz-Fraticelli, Victor M.
fromOxford constitutional theory
Pluralism proceeds from the observation that many associations in liberal democracies claim to possess, and attempt to exercise, a measure of legitimate authority over their members. They assert that this authority does not derive from the magnanimity of a liberal and tolerant s…