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Dialogues on Human Rights and Legal Pluralism

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Editors:
  1. René Provost

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

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  2. Colleen Sheppard

    1. , Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

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  • First volume to bring together authors with established track records in legal pluralism and human rights
  • Explores ways in which legal pluralism and human rights can mutually reinforcing, de-legitimizing, or competing
  • Opens conceptual avenues that are likely to be mined for years?

Part of the book series: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice (IUSGENT, volume 17)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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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