Preparing to add a
few videos to my outlines for (i) Comparative
Law and (ii) Jurisprudence, I
discovered William Twining's 'Normative and Legal Pluralism: A Global Perspective'.
Professor Twining delivered the paper in 2009 to the Center for International and Comparative Law of Duke University School of Law. It was posted last month. I recommend it highly.
In addition to being
on our Advisory Council, Professor Twining is 'the Quain Professor of
Jurisprudence Emeritus, University College of London, and a regular visiting
professor at the University of Miami Law School'. In the video, he 'presents
the annual Bernstein Lecture titled "Normative and Legal Pluralism: A
Global Perspective."
His text is available
here.
The abstract reads:
This
lecture sets out to demystify the topic of legal pluralism by examining the
relationship between legal pluralism, normative pluralism, and general
normative theory from a global perspective. The central theme is that treating
legal pluralism as a species of normative pluralism decenters the state, links
legal pluralism to a rich body of literature, and helps to show that some of
the central puzzlements surrounding the topic can usefully be viewed as much
broader issues in the general theory of norms and legal theory. A second theme
is that so-called “global legal pluralism” is in several respects qualitatively
different from the older anthropological and socio-legal accounts of legal
pluralism and is largely based on a different set of concerns.
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