PLURALISMO JURÍDICO E A DIFUSÃO DOS DIREITOS

Abstract

The purpose of this essay is to describe how a pluralistic view of law reshapes the current legal discourse. The focus will be particularly on: sources of law, legal families and legal traditions, and legal transplants. While the traditional account based on State law and on a sharp opposition of legal/non legal and official/unofficial law proved to be untrustworthy and oversimplifying, the proposed conceptualization helps to outline the distinction in a more nuanced and realistic way