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Legal pluralism

International and Comparative Law Doctrine
Origin Emerged as a recognized field of study when John Griffiths argued for the study of social systems of rules and how they interact with formal law, an approach especially associated with former colonies where a colonial power's law existed alongside traditional legal systems.

Legal pluralism is the existence of multiple legal systems within one society and/or geographical area. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Origin Period
Emerged as a recognized field of study when John Griffiths argued for the study of social systems of rules and how they interact with formal law, an approach especially associated with former colonies where a colonial power's law existed alongside traditional legal systems. 1
Core Principle
The existence of multiple legal systems within one society and/or geographical area. 1
Origin Period
Origin Period (category)
20th Century (1900-1999) 1
Classification
Doctrine Category
Legal Philosophy 2
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Entity-backed identity for the doctrine category value this doctrine already carries as an enum fact, resolved to a doctrine entity by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.

Sources
1. Legal pluralism (Wikipedia)
  • Theory of law section, Griffiths
    John Griffiths, made a strong argument for the study of these social systems of rules and how they interact with the law itself, which came to be known as legal pluralism.
  • Lead paragraph
    Legal pluralism is the existence of multiple legal systems within one society and/or geographical area.
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2. Wikipedia: Legal pluralism
the existence of multiple legal systems within one society and/or geographical areaView the Source
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