New Concepts in Legal Pluralism: A Theoretical and Practical Analysis

该项目的中心目标是通过发展法律的多元化的新概念，并展示其在现代法律的背景下的实际意义，对法律的知识作出实质性和原创性的贡献。传统的中央集权主义法律模式没有认识到法律与“准法律”和非正式规范体系的共存，它没有充分处理社会和文化差异，也没有认识到以国家为基础的法律既不是封闭的，也不是自治的。该项目将为法律的多元化制定一种创新的方法，并加强澳大利亚法律中的多元化思想。

The central objective of this project is to make a substantial and original contribution to legal knowledge by developing a new concept of legal pluralism, and demonstrating its practical significance in the modern legal context. The traditional centralist model of law fails to recognise the co-existance of law with "quasi-legal" and informal normative systems, it deals inadequately with social and cultural difference, and it fails to recognise that state-based law is neither closed nor autonomous. This project will develop an innovative approach to legal pluralism, and strengthen pluralist thought within Australian law.