Legal Pluralism and Development: Scholars And Practitioners In Dialogue

Part I. Origins and Contours: 1. Historical perspectives on legal pluralism Lauren Benton 2. The rule of law and legal pluralism in development Brian Z. Tamanaha 3. Bendable rules: the development implications of human rights pluralism David Kinley 4. Legal pluralism and legal culture: mapping the terrain Sally Engle Merry 5. Towards equity in development when the law is not the law: reflections on legal pluralism in practice Daniel Adler and So Sokbunthouen Part II. Theoretical Foundations and Conceptual Debates: 6. Sustainable diversity in law H. Patrick Glenn 7. Legal pluralism 101 William Twining 8. The development 'problem' of legal pluralism: an analysis and steps towards solutions Gordon R. Woodman 9. Institutional hybrids and the rule of law as a regulatory project Kanishka Jayasuriya 10. Some implications of the application of legal pluralism to development practice Doug J. Porter Part III. From Theory to Practice: 11. Legal pluralism and international development agencies: state building or legal reform Julio Faundez 12. Access to property and citizenship: marginalization in a context of legal pluralism Christian Lund 13. The publicity 'defect' of customary law Varun Gauri 14. Unearthing pluralism: mining, multilaterals and the state Meg Taylor and Nicholas Menzies 15. The problem with problematizing legal pluralism: lessons from the field Deborah H. Isser.