TY - BOOK ID - 706141 TI - Dialogues on human rights and legal pluralism AU - Provost, Rene AU - Sheppard, Colleen. PY - 2013 SN - 1283634023 9786613946478 9400747101 PB - Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Human rights. KW - Legal polycentricity. KW - Bijuralism KW - Legal pluralism KW - Pluralism, Legal KW - Polycentric law KW - Polycentricity, Legal KW - Law KW - Conflict of laws KW - Basic rights KW - Civil rights (International law) KW - Human rights KW - Rights, Human KW - Rights of man KW - Human security KW - Transitional justice KW - Truth commissions KW - Law and legislation KW - Philosophy of law. KW - Political science. KW - Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law . KW - Philosophy of Law. KW - Political Science. KW - Administration KW - Civil government KW - Commonwealth, The KW - Government KW - Political theory KW - Political thought KW - Politics KW - Science, Political KW - Social sciences KW - State, The KW - Private international law. KW - Conflict of laws. KW - Choice of law KW - Intermunicipal law KW - International law, Private KW - International private law KW - Private international law KW - Legal polycentricity KW - Civil law UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:706141 AB - Human rights have transformed the way in which we conceive the place of the individual within the community and in relation to the state in a vast array of disciplines, including law, philosophy, politics, sociology, geography. The published output on human rights over the last five decades has been enormous, but has remained tightly bound to a notion of human rights as dialectically linking the individual and the state. Because of human rights’ focus on the state and its actions, they have very seldom attracted the attention of legal pluralists. Indeed, some may have viewed the two as simply incompatible or relating to wholly distinct phenomena. This collection of essays is the first to bring together authors with established track records in the fields of legal pluralism and human rights, to explore the ways in which these concepts can be mutually reinforcing, delegitimizing, or competing. The essays reveal that there is no facile conclusion to reach but that the question opens avenues which are likely to be mined for years to come by those interested in how human rights can affect the behaviour of individuals and institutions. ER -