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Legal pluralism and normative transfer [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Legal norms have always crossed borders, be these national, cultural or functional, but recent legal and social changes have made the study of the circumstances under which law and norms are transferred from one context or locus to another more important than ever before.
openaire   +2 more sources

Cultural expertise in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland : the potential for Nordic legal pluralism

open access: yes
Published online: 10 July 2024This paper explores the reception, perception, and implementation of cultural expertise within the court systems of Sweden, Denmark, and Finland. It uses both quantitative and qualitative data collected from 2018 to 2022 for
ARAJÄRVI, Noora, AMARSAIKHA, Uyanga
core   +1 more source

Governing the Third Sector in the Gulf: A Systematic Review of Emergence, Capacity, and Policy Dynamics in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Oman

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The third sector has emerged as an increasingly important actor in governance, social development, and public service delivery across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), yet scholarly understanding of its evolution, institutional capacity, and policy role remains fragmented and uneven.
Moosa Elayah   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Legal Pluralism and Jurisdictional Layering in Peripheral VOC Padang, 1666–1781

open access: yesDiakronika
This article examines how jurisdictional layering, a form of legal pluralism, operated in VOC Padang (1666–1781). We define “operation of legal pluralism” as the structured coexistence of multiple legal authorities (e.g.
Dedi Arsa, Sucia Zonicha
doaj   +1 more source

The voracious appetites of public versus private property: a view of intellectual property and biodiversity from legal pluralism [PDF]

open access: yes
"This paper argues, from the perspective of legal pluralism, that both private and public properties are voracious. In recent western developments, they each expand by trying to 'eating the other up'.
Wiber, Melanie G.
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Legal Pluralism in Legal History [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Legal pluralism is not a conventional topic in legal history. Vice versa, legal history usually does not figure prominently in scholarship on legal pluralism. This article aims to show how both disciplines and topics can benefit from each other.
Seinecke, Ralf
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Transforming a Poaching Hotspot: Embedded NGO Governance Between State and Community in Southern China

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how a local environmental NGO in southern China transformed Guantouling Hill, once a prominent poaching hotspot along the East Asian–Australasian Flyway, into a recognised model of community‐based biodiversity conservation.
Zheng Lin, Miao Chen
wiley   +1 more source

‘Constellations’ and ‘Entanglement’ in The Study of Legal Pluralism: Reflections on The Scholarship of Keebet Von Benda-Beckmann

open access: yesThe Indonesian Journal of Socio-Legal Studies
Two key terms permeate the work of Keebet von Benda-Beckmann (and of her co-authors, especially Franz von Benda-Beckmann) in her discussions of legal pluralism: ‘constellations’ and ‘entanglement’.
Petra K. Mahy
doaj   +1 more source

The plural legacies of legal pluralism [Elektronisk resurs] : local practices and contestations of customary law in late colonial Indonesia

open access: yes
This article explores colonial interpretations of indigenous customary law traditions in nineteenth and early twentieth century Central Java and West Sumatra during Dutch colonial rule.
Manse, Maarten,, Manse, Maarten
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Social cohesion in restoration landscapes: The case of Rwanda

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Ecosystem restoration is recognized as a strategy for addressing landscape degradation. In contexts where ecological degradation overlaps with the deterioration of social cohesion, restoration must also contribute to rebuilding social ties alongside restoring ecosystems.
Valery Ndagijimana   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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