Legal Pluralism

"This excellent and reflective study argues that the concept of legal pluralism is important for understanding how law exists in the real world, influenced by historical contingencies that are often ignored in philosophical discussions. The authors seek to highlight these contingencies, offer insightful commentary, and encourage readers to consider their significance. It advocates a non-positivist ‘socio-legal jurisprudential’ approach, linking law to social justice and suggesting a methodological stance within legal philosophy. The book provides clarity in a complex and often unreflective field, and will help readers reason systematically about the complex reality of legal pluralism."
Michael Palmer, Emeritus Professor of Law, SOAS, University of London, UK, and Cheng Yu Visiting Professor of Law, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong.

"Green and Hendry have produced a work that is original in its theoretical claims, honest about the practical stakes of its arguments, and ethically serious in a way that sets it apart from much analytical jurisprudence. Their insistence that the denial of legal status to indigenous normative orders is, in practice, almost always a tool of suppression and marginalisation gives the book an urgency that will resonate well beyond the philosophy of law. Legal Pluralism: New Trajectories in Law will be essential reading for legal theorists, comparative lawyers, and all those concerned with the relationship between law, justice, and colonial history."Dauren Makhambetsaliyev, Faculty of Law, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan.