Legal Pluralism and the Validity of Law

在法律的多元性条件下，法律的有效性如何被证明？法律的多元化范式一直受到激烈的争论，它起源于社会科学，并在法律的理论背景中获得了重要意义。这些讨论既涉及经验现象，也涉及实际问题，如文化少数群体的习惯做法或全球化社会的规范秩序（即，跨国投资法或商法）。其中许多问题在政治上极具争议性，因此表明了法律的多元化概念的矛盾性。从法律的理论的角度来看，这种矛盾恰恰是富有成果的。作者对法律的多元化的起源和主要问题进行了分析和重建，这是一个复杂的、有争议的、在许多方面模糊的概念。在此基础上，他发展了一个有理论基础的方法，一个多元化的概念，法律的有效性。

How can the validity of law be justified under conditions of legal pluralism? The paradigm of legal pluralism has been subject to intense debate, originating in the social sciences and gaining significance in legal theoretical contexts. These discussions refer to empirical phenomena as well as to practical problems¿such as the habitual practices of cultural minorities or the normative orders of globalized society (i.e., transnational investment law or the ¿lex mercatoria¿). Many of these problems are politically highly controversial and thus point to a challenging ambivalence of the concept of legal pluralism. Precicely this ambivalence is fruitful from a legal theoretical perspective. The author advances an analysis and reconstruction of the genesis and major issues of legal pluralism¿a complex, contested and in many respects vague concept. Upon this basis, he then develops a theoretically grounded approach to a pluralist concept of legal validity.