Legal Pluralism and Human Agency

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dc.contributor.authorWebber, Jeremy
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-11T00:37:26Z
dc.date.available2017-02-11T00:37:26Z
dc.date.copyright2006en_US
dc.date.issued2006
dc.description.abstractMuch legal-pluralist scholarship tends to naturalize "the law of the context," treating that law as though it were inherent in social interaction, emerging spontaneously, without conscious human decision. This view overstates the role of agreement in human societies and mischaracterizes the nature of law, including non-state law. All law is concerned with establishing a collective set of norms against a backdrop of normative disagreement, not agreement. It necessarily contains mechanisms for bringing contention to a provisional close, imposing a collective solution. This article presents a theory of legal pluralism that takes human disagreement seriously. The theory retains four themes crucial to legal pluralism: the hermeneutic theme, the plural theme, the adaptive theme, and the decentring theme. It also helps us to identify two modes common in legal analysis-the descriptive and the hortatory mode-which are quite different, though often confused. In doing so it provides a compelling, pluralist conception of law, one that takes human disagreement seriously.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.identifier.citationWebber, J. (2006). Legal pluralism and human agency. Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 44(1), 167-198.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/ohlj/vol44/iss1/8/
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/7786
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherOsgoode Hall Law Journalen_US
dc.subjectLegal polycentricityen_US
dc.subjectAgent (Philosophy)en_US
dc.subjectLawen_US
dc.subject.departmentFaculty of Law
dc.titleLegal Pluralism and Human Agencyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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