Human Rights Encounter Legal Pluralism: Normative and Empirical Approaches

Brems, Eva (Editor)/ Corradi, Giselle (Editor)/ Goodale, Mark (Editor)

ISBN 10: 1849467617 / ISBN 13: 9781849467612

Published by Hart Pub Ltd, 2017

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255 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Human Rights Encounter Legal Pluralism: Normative and Empirical Approaches
• Publisher: Hart Pub Ltd
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1849467617
• ISBN 13: 9781849467612
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.56 kilograms

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Synopsis

This collection of essays interrogates how human rights law and practice acquire meaning in relation to legal pluralism, ie, the co-existence of more than one regulatory order in a same social field. As a social phenomenon, legal pluralism exists in all societies. As a legal construction, it is characteristic of particular regions, such as post-colonial contexts. Drawing on experiences from Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe, the contributions in this volume analyse how different configurations of legal pluralism interplay with the legal and the social life of human rights. At the same time, they enquire into how human rights law and practice influence interactions that are subject to regulation by more than one normative regime. Aware of numerous misunderstandings and of the mutual suspicion that tends to exist between human rights scholars and anthropologists, the volume includes contributions from experts in both disciplines and intends to build bridges between normative and empirical theory.

About the Author

Eva Brems is Professor of Human Rights Law at Ghent University. Giselle Corradi is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Human Rights Centre at the Law Faculty of Ghent University. Mark Goodale is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Lausanne and Series Editor of Stanford Studies in Human Rights.