ABSTRACT

This article considers the impact of the book People’s Law and State Law: the Bellagio Papers, edited by Anthony Allott and Gordon Woodman, published in 1985. It sets out why I consider this publication to be a seminal text in establishing and developing the field of legal pluralism, which had a great impact on both the development of the Journal of Legal Pluralism and on my own development as a young legal scholar. In looking beyond the text, I consider the ways in which scholars have engaged with the book’s call for legal and social science to “work from a new map”. In doing so I explore a recent arena of scholarship involving international intervention. The article highlights the important contribution that empirical studies can make to research on legal pluralism, by moving beyond the binaries of state and non-state actors, as well as through pursuing how scholars are adopting a more integrated and relational approach to law, one that may involve breaking down traditional disciplinary boundaries. In particular, I explore how concepts such as space and time contribute to a multi-dimensional, scalar perception of law at odds with a formalist, state-centred view of legal pluralism. This allows new insights to be generated into the operation of plural legal structures and constellations in which people operate allowing for a view of law that involves multiple networks of relations cutting across international, national and local boundaries.

摘要

本文考虑了《人民法律和国家法律：百乐宫文件》一书的影响，由 Anthony Allott 和 Gordon Woodman 编辑，于 1985 年出版。它阐述了为什么我认为该出版物是建立和发展法律多元化领域的开创性文本，它对《法律杂志》的发展都产生了重大影响多元化和我作为一名年轻的法律学者的个人发展。在超越文本时，我考虑了学者们如何参与本书呼吁法律和社会科学“从新地图开始工作”的方式。在此过程中，我探索了最近涉及国际干预的学术领域。本文强调了实证研究可以对法律多元化研究做出的重要贡献，超越国家和非国家行为者的二元论，以及探索学者如何采用更加综合和相关的法律方法，一种可能涉及打破传统学科界限的方法。特别是，我探讨了空间和时间等概念如何促成对法律的多维、标量感知，这与形式主义、以国家为中心的法律多元主义观点不一致。这允许对人们在其中运作的多元法律结构和星座的运作产生新的见解，从而可以看到涉及跨越国际、国家和地方边界的多个关系网络的法律观点。