Non-State Justice Institutions and the Law

1. Introduction: A Bifurcated Theory of Law in Hybrid Societies
Brian Z. Tamanaha

Part I. Recognizing Non-State Justice Institutions: Five Cases

2. Pakistan: Jirgas Dispensing Justice without State Control
Tilmann J. Röder, Naveed A. Shinwari

3. South Sudan: Linking the Chiefs’ Judicial Authority and the Statutory Court System
Katharina Diehl, Ruben Madol Arol, Simone Malz

4. Ethiopia: Legal and Judicial Plurality and the Incorporation of Traditional Dispute Resolution Mechanisms within the State Justice System
Girmachew Alemu Aneme

5. Bolivia: Normative Equality between State and Customary Law. Utopia or the Future of Hybrid Normative Systems?
Lorena Ossio Bustillos

6. South Africa: Legal Recognition of Traditional Courts — Legal Pluralism in Action
Christa Rautenbach

Part II. Non-State Justice Institution and the Law: Conceptual Approaches

7. Non-State Justice Institutions: A Matter of Fact and a Matter of Legislation
Matthias Kötter

8. From Normative Pluralism to a Pluralism of Norm Enforcement Regimes: A Governance Research Perspective
Gunnar Folke Schuppert

9. Legal Pluralism from the Perspective of International Law
Rüdiger Wolfrum

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, International Relations, Human Rights, Political Science, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Public Law