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Diverse legalities: pluralism and instrumentalism

In: The Handbook of Diverse Economies

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  • Bronwen Morgan
  • Declan Kuch

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This chapter draws from socio-legal scholarship to explore two pathways opened up by the question of law’s role in producing a discourse of economic difference: legal pluralism and legal instrumentalism. The former refers to a tradition of open-minded thinking about the sources of legal authority; the latter emphasizes the outcomes of legal processes, broadly conceived. The authors eschew the ‘Eeyore’ image of law to instead argue for law as a commons that can enable mutual trust when grounded in the concerns of diverse economy to reimagine enterprise, exchange and ownership.

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  • Bronwen Morgan & Declan Kuch, 2020. "Diverse legalities: pluralism and instrumentalism," Chapters, in: J. K. Gibson-Graham & Kelly Dombroski (ed.), The Handbook of Diverse Economies, chapter 36, pages 323-330, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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