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The Uses and Abuses of Legal Pluralism: A View from the Sideline

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 May 2023

Tamar Herzog*
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Abstract

This text takes issue with how present day debates regarding legal pluralism affect our vision of the past, as well as limit the horizons of possibilities in the future. It suggests that the genealogy of these debates determined what would be seen, and what ignored, and that, as a result, it has privileged some aspects, while forgetting the importance of others.

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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of American Society for Legal History

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