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legal pluralism       Search catalogue 29492180X

STA
Approved

UPD
2012-03-23

DUT
rechtspluralisme

DAT
Added 2006. For publications indexed before 2006, see conflict of laws.

IND
1

PPN
29492180X

UDC
340.5X

SN
Most contemporary legal systems - in developing countries and industrialized states - contain parallel and often contradictory regulations of social, economic and political organization. These are based on different types of legitimation: international law, state law, religious law, customary law and new forms of self-regulation. This type of legal complexity is designated by the term 'legal pluralism'.

MRF
340.1:141.113

UF
mixed legal systems

RT
conflict of laws
legal systems
reception of foreign law

BSO
10.01 LAW AND LEGAL SYSTEMS GENERAL

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