Dialogues on Human Rights and Legal Pluralism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: Human Rights Through Legal Pluralism

   • René Provost, Colleen Sheppard

   Pages 1-11

3. Universality and Plurality: Foundational Claims

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Pluralistic Human Rights? Universal Human Wrongs?

      • Roderick A. Macdonald

      Pages 15-36

   3. E Pluribus Unum – Bhinneka Tunggal Ika? Universal Human Rights and the Fragmentation of International Law

      • Carlos Iván Fuentes, René Provost, Samuel G. Walker

      Pages 37-68

   4. International Human Rights and Global Legal Pluralism: A Research Agenda

      • Frédéric Mégret

      Pages 69-95

4. Human Rights Values and Multiple Legal Orders: Connections and Contradictions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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   2. The Protection of Human Dignity in Contemporary Legal Pluralism

      • Jean-Guy Belley

      Pages 99-128

   3. Equality Through the Prism of Legal Pluralism

      • Colleen Sheppard

      Pages 129-143

   4. Labour Law in Canada as a Site of Legal Pluralism

      • Guylaine Vallée

      Pages 145-164

   5. The Rigidity and Density of Discipline in Youth Rehabilitation Centres … Or Rules That Counter Rights

      • Julie Desrosiers

      Pages 165-185

   6. Reconceptualising Social and Economic Rights: The Right to Housing and Intersecting Legal Regimes

      • Jane Matthews Glenn

      Pages 187-204

5. Communities, Human Rights and Local Practices

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205

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6. Communities, Human Rights and Local Practices

   1. Transnational Human Rights and Local Activism: Mapping the Middle

      • Sally Engle Merry

      Pages 207-228

   2. Thinking About Indigenous Legal Orders

      • Val Napoleon

      Pages 229-245

   3. Wives’ Tales on Research in Bountiful

      • Angela Campbell

      Pages 247-267

7. Back Matter

   Pages 269-287

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Human rights have transformed the way in which we conceive the place of the individual within the community and in relation to the state in a vast array of disciplines, including law, philosophy, politics, sociology, geography. The published output on human rights over the last five decades has been enormous, but has remained tightly bound to a notion of human rights as dialectically linking the individual and the state. Because of human rights’ dogged focus on the state and its actions, they have very seldom attracted the attention of legal pluralists. Indeed, some may have viewed the two as simply incompatible or relating to wholly distinct phenomena. This collection of essays is the first to bring together authors with established track records in the fields of legal pluralism and human rights, to explore the ways in which these concepts can be mutually reinforcing, delegitimizing, or competing. The essays reveal that there is no facile conclusion to reach but that the question opens avenues which are likely to be mined for years to come by those interested in how human rights can affect the behaviour of individuals and institutions.

• Communities and Local Practice
• Diversity and Human Rights
• Fragmentation of International
• Human Rights Discourse
• Human Rights Through Legal Pluralism
• Human Rights Values
• Human Rights and Legal Pluralism
• Human Rights and Local Practices
• Iinsitutional Legal Orders
• Indigenous Legal Orders
• International Human Rights and Legal Pluralism
• International Law and Human Rights
• Labour Law and Legal Pluralism
• Legal Pluralism and Human Dignity
• Pluralistic Human Rights
• Reconceptualizing Social and Economic Rights
• Transnational Human Rights
• Universal Human Wrongs

• Fac. Law, Centre for Human Rights &, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

  René Provost

• , Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

  Colleen Sheppard

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