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Negotiating justice: legal pluralism and gender-based violence in Liberia
Shai André Divon, Morten Bøås
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Membership‐Making in Diverse Societies: Revisiting the Idea of Society as a Common Possession
ABSTRACT The traditional aim of Western social democracy has been to create a society that is a ‘common possession’ of its members (in T.H. Marshall's words). Social democratic politics has therefore been both society‐making and membership‐making, orienting people to a shared society as an object of attachment and loyalty, and nurturing membership ...
Will Kymlicka
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Re-appraisal of legal systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: questioning the legal pluralism paradigm
The notion that multiple legal systems autonomously coexist in independent states in sub-Saharan Africa due to the interaction of the continent with foreign legal systems is theoretically flawed, misleading and an incorrect application of the concept of ...
Uhumuavbi, Ikpenmosa +1 more
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Society as Reality and Construction: Decolonial Citizenship‐Making
ABSTRACT Kymlicka asks whether the Marshallian vision of society‐ and membership‐making remains relevant when thinking about possible Indigenous futures. In this article, I first respond to this question. Given the meticulousness of Kymlicka's analysis, my response should be read as complementary, offering additional considerations that I think warrant
Rauna Kuokkanen
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Child marriage remains a complex issue within Indonesia’s multicultural legal system. The lack of synchronization among state law, religious law, and customary law creates a significant space for legal contestation, particularly in the practices of ...
Arman Budiman +2 more
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Media Pluralism: European Regulatory Policies and the Case of Central Europe [PDF]
In recent years, media pluralism has become the key theme of media policy debates both at the EU and national levels. This article examines normative grounds of media pluralism and considers different approaches to the issue.
Beata Klimkiewicz
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Legal pluralism and normative transfer [PDF]
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.
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The Mexico City Policy in US Development Policy and Its Backlash‐Frontlash‐Logic
ABSTRACT The Mexico City Policy provides for the discontinuation of U.S. government funding for foreign non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) that provide legal abortion services. While Republican administrations have repeatedly pushed for the introduction of the Mexico City Policy after their re‐election, those regulations have been rescinded by ...
Thomas Lange
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Legal protection of customary rights under legal pluralism and its impact on the minangkabau society: An empirical study in the district of Lima Puluh Kota, West Sumatra [PDF]
Zefrizal Nurdin
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