1st Edition
Ubiquitous Law Legal Theory and the Space for Legal Pluralism
By Emmanuel Melissaris
Copyright 2009
178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
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Ubiquitous Law explores the possibility of understanding the law in dissociation from the State while, at the same time, establishing the conditions of meaningful communication between various legalities. This book argues that the enquiry into the legal has been biased by the implicit or explicit presupposition of the State's exclusivity to a claim to legality as well as the tendency to make the... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Perspective, critique and pluralism in legal theory; Orthodoxies and heterodoxies of legal pluralism; On the theoretical groundwork of legal pluralism; Interperspectival critical legal theory; The contours of institutionalised legal discourse; Shared normative experiences and the space for legal pluralism; On the chronology (and topology) of the legal; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Emmanuel Melissaris is a Lecturer in Law at the London School of Economics, UK
'...it provides a wealth of insightful, scholarly and wide-ranging discussion. It deserves to be read by anyone interested in the now vitally important task of exploring the nature of legal pluralism as a contemporary phenomenon, and as a key organizing idea for current theoretical inquiries about law.' Law and Politics Book Review ’This excellent book may scare off many traditional and mentally-enslaved lawyers by proposing that law is ’ubiquitous’. But we cannot sit on the fence; we have to make decisions, all the time. Are such decisions adequate and ’just’? This book’s case for wider acceptance of the methodologies of legal pluralism is exceedingly well argued.’ Social & Legal Studies ’Melissaris has made a sophisticated and substantial contribution to our understanding of the legal and normative plurality of the present. The book deserves to be widely read.’ Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence
