Our Executive Body
Our Executive Body
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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
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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.
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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.
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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..
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A new editor-in-chief has been appointed for the Journal of Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis
We are also pleased to announce a change in editorial leadership at the Journal of Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis. Professor Christa Rautenbach of North-West University (NWU), South Africa, has been appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief, succeeding Professor Dik Roth of Wageningen University (WUR), the Netherlands.
