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53 J. Legal Pluralism & Unofficial L. 1 (2021)

handle is hein.journals/jlpul2021 and id is 1 raw text is: THE JOURNAL OF LEGAL PLURALISM AND UNOFFICIAL LAW 2021, VOL. 53, NO. 1, 1-2 Routledge https:Ildoi.org/10.1080/07329113.2021.1903246 Taylor & Francis Group EDITORIAL From the editors: forty years journal of legal pluralism and unofficial law Starting from 2021, every issue of the Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law will contain an editorial to introduce the journal's content, update readers on new develop- ments or information on the journal, or comment on important societal issues related to the thematic field of the journal. This is only part of a larger number of planned changes in the journal, some of which will be introduced below. For the journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 2021 is a year of celebration because of its 40th anniversary. The first issue of the Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law appeared in 1981, but its history actually goes back much earlier. Its prede- cessor, African Law Studies, first appeared in 1969 as a publication of the African Law Center in New York. This first 1969 issue contained papers on topics that, more than fifty years later, are still highly relevant, be it in a world that has radically changed: the role of customary land tenure, the legal basis under which foreign corporations operate in African countries, relations of developing countries with the (then) European Economic Community, and the role of copyright issues in relation to African culture. The journal appeared under this name until its 1980 issue, when the (then) editor-in-chief John Griffiths anounced its name change into Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law (J.L.P.). Its first issue contained a number of influential articles like Marc Galanter's Justice in many rooms and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann's Forum shopping and shopping forums. Through its existence, the journal has made an important contribution to the social- scientific study of law and legal pluralism in a wide diversity of socio-cultural and political contexts. In association with the Commission on Legal Pluralism,' it has played a crucial role in spreading the scientific-analytical recognition of other-than-state forms of law and their, often problematic, interactions with state laws and political authorities. Thus it has expanded research on and theorizing of legal pluralism as a basic social issue. Gaining wider acceptance for these insights was a major challenge in a scientific world characterized by hard disciplinary boundaries and a general state bias, especially in legal science. In a rapidly changing world, attention to manifestations of legal pluralism increasingly included the analysis of its international, transnational and global(-izing) dimensions, but always in relation to their meaning, impacts and transformations in specific localities-including issues of recognition, human rights and justice. It can be concluded that the journal has been very successful in getting the concept of legal pluralism and the kind of social-scientific theorizing on which it is based more widely accepted in the academic world. It has even succeeded, to some extent, in mainstreaming the concept, use of which has increasingly found its way into publica- tions on a variety of topics published across the wide landscape of social-scientific and other journals, as well as in books. The journal aims to remain a major publication outlet for work on the social-scientific study of law and legal pluralism in the broadest sense, with stress on the social-scientific and explicitly also inviting critical social-scientific and interdisciplinary work in which legal pluralism is part of the analysis but not per se the main topic. More about this in this year's third issue. Another ambition of the journal is C 2021 The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law

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