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Dear Colleagues:
I am organizing a legal pluralism panel for
the 2014 LSA meeting. I am pasting the description of the panel below. Further
information on the LSA meeting can be found at: http ://www . lawandsociety . org. If you are
interested in joining the panel please email me a brief abstract (100-250
words) by Oct 10, 2013. The deadline for submissions is Oct 15. My email
address is: turkeypm@hotmail.com.
For your inquiries regarding travel, accommodation, visas, funding etc. please
refer to the LSA website.
Kind Regards,
Yüksel Sezgin
Panel Proposal:
The Law’s (In)equality: Can Legal Pluralism
Deliver on the Law’s Promise of Equality and Justice for All?
The state law—despite its claims to treat
everyone equally—may be viewed as a major source and instrument of racial,
class, and gender inequality, and injustice especially when it denies the
legitimacy of diverse legal traditions, and destroys alternative systems of
meaning and normativity in society. In an attempt to provide a more egalitarian
or participatory view of law this panel will discuss whether a plural or
polycentric conceptualization of normative universe could reduce existing socio-economic inequalities and further the
goals of fairness and justice by
recognizing and accommodating the subaltern normativity and non-ruling legal
cultures.
The panel will be composed of scholars from
fairly diverse geographic, institutional and disciplinary backgrounds.
Presenters will not only revisit some of the recent theoretical and
methodological debates in the field but also test some innovative approaches –emerged
as response to these debates-- on various case studies from around the globe.
By placing a polycentric concept of law at the intersection of state and
society relations, the panel will also present multiple levels and sources of
legality stemming from both state and non-state actors by covering a wide array
of topics including customary law, religious law, rights of
indigenous/aboriginal people, multiculturalism, globalization, poverty, racial
discrimination, and class and gender inequality.
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