Abstract:
Philosophers of law typically analyse law and legal systems in isolation from one another, where the identity of legal systems is understood by distinguishing between norms that belong to different systems, and concepts of law are built by identifying features of those systems that are universal or near-universal, or truistic and seemingly important (e.g., Raz 2009a; Shapiro 2010). In contrast, what I am calling ‘pluralist jurisprudence’ examines the implications of overlapping and sometimes conflicting levels of state, supra-state, inter-state and sub-state law.
