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14 JANUARY 2013
UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND, ROVANIEMI, FINLAND
The world and the world of law are changing. Globalization and European integration have had a great impact on virtually every area of human life – social, economic, cultural, political, legal and technological. Simultaneously, we face mass migrations which inject new legal ideas and competing world views into national legal cultures. These developments are flanked by the rediscovery of old linguistic and ethnic internal pluralities within nation-states. Law today is increasingly more than state laws uniform to all, excluding other forms of law and administered by a single set of formal institutions. The legal traditions of indigenous peoples (eg, the Sámi, the Maori, etc) has also presented a renewed challenge to the state-centred paradigm of law. In short, legal plurality is today’s reality. Accordingly, debates about pluralism can no longer be confined the classical anthropological legal pluralism in colonial or post-colonial settings. Today, there are several forms of pluralism in law: constitutional, religious, disciplinary, philosophical, etc.
Several transnational processes have also transformed today’s legal professions: lawyers, attorneys, judges, public officials, translators, and scholars. Accordingly, the requirements for valid legal knowledge today are different from those of the past. The need for a comparative and non-national understanding of our plural laws, both within the state and without, and legal cultures is constantly growing. Accordingly, knowing how to deal with legal pluralism in practice is increasingly unavoidable. In order to be able to cope with pluralism, however, it is first necessary to understand it. The theoretical and methodological challenge of understanding legal pluralism is the scholarly core of this Symposium: rethinking conventional state-centred approaches to understanding law in terms of both methodology and substance.
Legal research (ie, the doctrinal study of law) in Continental Europe has traditionally been, and remains, nationally oriented. It is methodologically unequipped to deal with contemporary legal pluralisms and overlapping normative orders. This Symposium seeks to juxtapose and contrast theoretical and substantive perspectives on the plurality of legal pluralisms.
The Symposium is organised by the ULEP research project and LeCTra Research School (the University of Lapland) in cooperation with M-EPLI (the University of Maastricht).
The programme is available here.
Legal research (ie, the doctrinal study of law) in Continental Europe has traditionally been, and remains, nationally oriented. It is methodologically unequipped to deal with contemporary legal pluralisms and overlapping normative orders. This Symposium seeks to juxtapose and contrast theoretical and substantive perspectives on the plurality of legal pluralisms.
The Symposium is organised by the ULEP research project and LeCTra Research School (the University of Lapland) in cooperation with M-EPLI (the University of Maastricht).
The programme is available here.
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