Human Rights Encounter Legal Pluralism

Giselle Corradi is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Human Rights Centre at the Law Faculty of Ghent University.Eva Brems is Professor of Human Rights Law at Ghent University.Mark Goodale is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Lausanne.

• INTRODUCTION1. Human Rights and Legal Pluralism: Four Research Agendas Giselle CorradiPART ONE: NORMATIVE APPROACHES2. Legal Pluralism as a Human Right and/or as a Human Rights Violation Eva Brems3. Legal Pluralism and International Human Rights Law: A Multifaceted Relationship Ellen Desmet4. Human Rights, Cultural Diversity and Legal Pluralism from an Indigenous Perspective: The Awas Tingni Case Felipe Gómez Isa5. Taking the Challenge of Legal Pluralism for Human Rights Seriously André Hoekema6. Indigenous Justice and the Right to a Fair Trial Giselle CorradiPART TWO: EMPIRICAL APPROACHES7. Gender, Human Rights and Legal Pluralities in Southern Africa: A Matter of Context and Power Anne Hellum and Rosalie Katsande8. Women’s Rights and Transnational Aid Programmes in Niger: The Conundrums and Possibilities of Neoliberalism and Legal Pluralism Kari B Henquinet9. Legal Borderlands: Ghanaian Human Rights Advocacy between the Layers of Law Catherine Buerger10. Insiders’ Perspectives on Muslim Divorce in Belgium: A Women’s Rights Analysis Kim Lecoyer11. Through the Looking Glass of Diversity: The Right to Family Life from the Perspectives of TransnationalFamilies in BelgiumBarbara Truffi n and Olivier Struelens

This slim volume ... is packed with rich detail that contributes to a deep theoretical engagement with both the legal pluralism and human rights literatures. The papers collectively and individually push the theoretical envelope through which we conceptualize legal pluralism, and better understand its intersections with human rights.