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President

Christa Rautenbach (North-West University, South Africa)


Past Presidents

Geert van den Steenhoven
Marc Galanter
Gordon Woodman
Harald Finkler
Keebet von Benda-Beckmann
Anne Griffiths
Maarten Bavinck
Janine Ubink


Executive Secretary

Ellen Desmet and Waheeda Amien (interim during Summer 2023)


Board 2021– 2023

Jennifer Corrin (The University of Queensland, Australia)
Marie-Claire Foblets (Max Planck Institute, Halle, Germany)    
Armando Guevara-Gil (Universidad para el Desarrollo Andino, Perú)
Chuma Himonga (Professor Emeritus, University of Cape Town)   
René Kuppe (University of Vienna, Austria)  
Natalya Novikova (Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, RAS, Russia)
Ghislain Otis (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Devanathan Parthasarathy (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)     
Christa Rautenbach (North-West University, South Africa)
Alison Dundes Renteln (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA)
Rachel Sieder (Center for Research and Graduate Studies in Social Anthropology, Mexico)
Indira Simbolon (Asian Development Bank, Philippines)   
Masami Mori Tachibana (Kyoto Bunkyo University, Japan) 
Bertram Turner (Max Planck Institute, Halle, Germany)
Patricia Urteaga (Universidad Catolica de Lima, Peru) 
Ulrike Wanitzek (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
Markus Weilenmann (Office for Conflict Research in Developing Countries, Switzerland)  
Werner Zips (University of Vienna, Austria)


Ex Officio Members

Maarten Bavinck (Past President, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Anne Griffiths (Past President, University of Edinburgh, UK)
Dik Roth (on behalf of Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis, Wageningen University, the Netherlands)
Janine Ubink (Past President, Leiden University, the Netherlands)
Melanie Wiber (on behalf of Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis, University of New Brunswick, Canada)  

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  • 2026-01-15

    Membership Fees for 2026 and Invitation to Join

    Members of the Commission on Legal Pluralism are kindly reminded that membership fees for the 2026 calendar year are now due. We kindly invite you to settle your 2026 membership fee by 28 February 2026. Timely payment ensures the continued functioning of the Commission and supports its scholarly activities, including conferences, publications, and international networking.

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  • 2025-08-24

    Call for Establishing a Legal Pluralism Lab

    — Reetta Toivanen —

    Under the umbrella of the Commission on Legal Pluralism (CLP), we aim to establish an online forum for debate and exchange among scholars and practitioners interested in legal pluralism. 

    The inaugural meeting will take place on:
    Wednesday, 24 September 2025
    8:30 a.m. (Berlin) | 4:30 p.m. (Canberra) | 3:30 a.m. (Rio de Janeiro) | 2:30 a.m. (Montreal) | 2:30 p.m. (Taipei) | 12 p.m./noon (Delhi)

    Click here to read more and contact information

  • 2025-07-15

    New Publications on Legal Pluralism 2

    — Christa Rautenbach —

    The list includes recent academic publications (2025) exploring various dimensions of legal pluralism. They reflect a diversity of regional contexts, thematic perspectives, and methodological approaches. To facilitate navigation, the entries are grouped by geographic or thematic relevance.

    Click here for more details.

  • 2025-07-14

    Remembering Bellagio: The beginning of the Commision on Legal Pluralism

    — Anne Griffiths —

    This article, "Remembering Bellagio", by Fons Strijbosch, makes an important contribution to people’s understanding of the history of the Commission on Legal Pluralism.

  • 2025-07-13

    Call for Contributions: Special Issue Honoring Keebet von Benda-Beckmann (1946–2022)

    The Indonesian Journal of Socio-Legal Studies invites submissions for a special issue dedicated to the memory of Keebet von Benda-Beckmann (1946–2022), in recognition of her pioneering contributions to the anthropology of law. Click here for more information..

  • A new editor-in-chief has been appointed for the Journal of Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis

  • New Publications on Legal Pluralism 1

  • In Gratitude: The von Benda-Beckmann Family Thanks the CLP Community

  • Editor-in-Chief for Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis

  • Call for papers: The transformative power of legal pluralism?

  • Call for contributions: Resource struggles in the peri-urban: a legal pluralism perspective

  • Applications open for International Course on Legal Pluralism - adjusted deadline!

  • 4 April 2024: Keynote lecture Michael W. Yarbrough

  • Call for panels: The transformative power of legal pluralism?

  • Call for Panels: World Anthropological Union Congress 2024

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