State Law, Dispute Processing, and Legal Pluralism: Unspoken Dialogues from Rural India, By Kalindi Kokal, London: Routledge, 2020, 218 pp.

Authors

  • Daniela Silipigni

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36368/njolas.v4i02.229

Keywords:

Legal pluralism, informal dispute processing, living law, unofficial law

Abstract

This book review discusses Kokal’s central points in State Law, Dispute Processing, and Legal Pluralism: Unspoken Dialogues from Rural India. Within the review, Kokal’s arguments of legal pluralism are pointed out and linked back to theories related to this field, such as Ehrlich’s theory of living law and Luhmann’s systems theory. The review explores Kokal’s idea of parallel legal systems being interconnected and operating at the same time. The review further sets forward the importance of Kokal’s work as providing an enlightening perspective to the socio-legal discussion of what is law and if we should conceptualise it in terms of state law or adopt a more bottom-up approach to the issue, as Kokal did in her own work.

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Published

2021-11-03

How to Cite

Silipigni, D. . (2021) “ 218 pp”., Nordic Journal on Law and Society, 4(02). doi: 10.36368/njolas.v4i02.229.

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Vol. 4 No. 02 (2021)

Section

Book reviews

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