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Law And Feminism: Foreword, Mary Jane Mossman
Law And Feminism: Foreword, Mary Jane Mossman
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
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Legal Pluralism And Human Agency, Jeremy Webber
Legal Pluralism And Human Agency, Jeremy Webber
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
Much legal-pluralist scholarship tends to naturalize "the law of the context," treating that law as though it were inherent in social interaction, emerging spontaneously, without conscious human decision. This view overstates the role of agreement in human societies and mischaracterizes the nature of law, including non-state law. All law is concerned with establishing a collective set of norms against a backdrop of normative disagreement, not agreement. It necessarily contains mechanisms for bringing contention to a provisional close, imposing a collective solution. This article presents a theory of legal pluralism that takes human disagreement seriously. The theory retains four themes crucial …