The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 50/2005

Richard Crook writes on the use of state courts in Ghana, Arnaldo Godoy on the Brazilian experience of legal pluralism, Bishnu Upreti on the control of natural resources in Nepal, and Kathryn Fulton on socio-economic developments in an Alaskan village. On India, Julia Eckert considers the interaction between state law and the normative order of a political party, Karine Bates an attempt to change gender relations in the social practice of inheritance law, and Pampa Mukherjee legal control of forest use. Yüksel Sezgin proposes a mode of quantifying and comparing instances of legal pluralism.