This approach is developed further under the section on legal pluralism.

His work emphasizes the importance of political elite, critical communitarianism, legal pluralism, cultural relativism and political power in local, state and global sites.

His work deals primarily with law, religion, and government in the Imperial era, particularly issues of Roman citizenship, legal pluralism, and legal procedure.

See the entry on sociology of law for other definitions of, and approaches to, legal pluralism.

As a result, the whole legal system formed a primitive legal pluralism of court law and clan law.

The traditional rural Chinese legal culture which is premised on personal and informal relations faces erosion unless legal pluralism is promoted.

It is called 'legal pluralism' - a term that was coined in the 1970s by John Griffiths.

The main criticism of deep legal pluralism is that it offends the rule of law, 'which is seen as a necessary feature of justice'.

It would seem that, in this decision, the Constitutional Court espoused Woodman's theory of "selective legal pluralism".

He contends that legal pluralism is an important federalist policy in a pluralist society such as Ethiopia.