Sociology 3260A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: International Monetary Fund, Free Trade, The Need
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Legal pluralism: definition: "two or more sets of laws and legal practices operating (more or less) at the same time in the same place" (calavita: 74) (i. e. ) Canada - federal, provincial, and local/municipal laws, law like rules/processes: minimum wage, income tax las, local property tax systems, neighbourhood associations, domestic/international human rights law (setting human rights standards throughout the world) Globalization: creation and spread of supranational institutions that govern/regulate national and local practices, examples, free trade organizations, world trade organization, world bank, united nations, multi-national corporations. Law as a mode of control/mode of resistance (pg. Strengths of legal pluralism: legal centralism (griffiths 1986, creates conversations around normative order, opens up ideas about justice. How do we recognize law under legal pluralism: "the self-regulation of a semi-autonomous social field" (griffths, the differentiation and re-institutionalization of norms into primary and secondary rules (galanther)