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3 - International Law and Sociolegal Scholarship

Toward a Spatial Global Legal Pluralism*

from Part I - Negotiating State and Non-State Law: The Legal Pluralist Project

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2015

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Sally Engle Merry
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Michael A. Helfand
Michael A. Helfand
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Pepperdine University School of Law
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Negotiating State and Non-State Law
The Challenge of Global and Local Legal Pluralism
 , pp. 59 - 80
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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