The limits of normative legal pluralism: Review of Paul Schiff Berman, Global Legal Pluralism: A Jurisprudence of Law beyond Borders

摘要

It is now commonplace to explore the myriad ways in which globalization has engendered changes in the structures and sources of law. Of course, the concept of "globalization" is not uncontested: one cannot always be entirely certain what globalization really entails or what kind of phenomena it comprises. Yet, it is uncontested that we are in a transition period in which the traditional conceptions of law are insufficient for capturing the present shifts in the contours of law and the role of the state in the process of the production of legal norms.