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8 UC Irvine L. Rev. 141 (2018)
Legal Pluralism in a Globalized World

handle is hein.journals/ucirvlre8 and id is 149 raw text is: Introduction: Legal Pluralism in a Globalized World Janine Ubink* This issue of the UC Irvine law Review results from a symposium on legal pluralism, co-organized by the Commission on Legal Pluralism and the University of California, Irvine School of Law in August 2016. The Commission on Legal Pluralism was established in 1978 by the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) and is affiliated with the International Association of Legal Science (IALS). The Commission aims to further knowledge and understanding of legal pluralism, with a focus upon theoretical and practical problems resulting from the interaction of different types of law, such as state law, international and transnational law, religious law, and customary law. Among its main activities are the organization of international symposia; the initiation and encouragement of Regional Working Groups in different parts of the world; and the organization and delivery of courses and summer schools on legal pluralism.' Legal pluralism is generally defined as the presence of more than one legal order in a social field.2 It was a response to legal centralist ideology that law is and should be the law of the state and that other normative orderings are hierarchically subordinate to state law.3 The concept also reacted to the trend in classical legal anthropology until the 1950s or '60s to edit out the state in their studies that usually focused on small, isolated, untouched societies.4 Researchers approached the customary legal systems of these societies as autonomous legal systems, largely disregarding the colonial government and its actors; they were thus unconcerned with any interaction between state and local normative systems and the resulting Janine Ubink is a professor of Law, Governance and Development at Leiden University and the President of the Commission on Legal Pluralism. 1. See CitiZenship, Legal Pluralism and Governance in the Age of GlobaliZation, COMMISSION ON LEGAL PLURALISM, http://commission-on-legal-pluralism.com/nl/home [https://perma.cc/6JLK- 6GVL] (last visited Mar. 21, 2018). 2. John Griffiths, What is Legal Pluralism?, 24 J. LEGAL PLURALISM & UNOFFICIAL L. 1, 1 (1986). 3. Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Who's Afraid of Legal Pluralism?, 47 J. LEGAL PLURALISM & UNOFFICIAL L. 37, 37 (2002). 4. Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, Noot 24: Rechtspluralisme, in DE SOCIALFi WERKING VAN RECHT: EEN KENNISMAKING MET DE RECHTSSOCIOLOGIE EN RECHTSANTROPOLOGIE 740 (J. Griffiths ed., 1996). 141

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