Introduction: Human Rights Through Legal Pluralism

A legally pluralist approach to the Bakassi Peninsula case

“…The initial legal academic interest in legal pluralism thus arose from attempts accurately to describe 'a notion of normativity [that] did not correspond to an idealised understanding of law in western thought'. 12 In their exploration of the way overlapping legal orders interacted, legal pluralists were able to observe that 'the very existence of multiple systems [could] at times create openings for contestation, resistance, and creative adaptation'. 13 Two important observations should be made at this juncture.…”

“…R Provost and C. Sheppard, (2012). 'Dialogues on Human Rights and Legal Pluralism' in R. Provost & C. Sheppard (eds), Dialogues on Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (Springer), 1 2 B. de Sousa Santos, (1987) 'Law: A Map of Misreading.…”

Propos introductifs : la polarisation de la notion de fragmentation, entre unité et diversité du droit

“…Parler de fragmentation renvoie nécessairement (explicitement ou implicitement) à une certaine idée d'ensemble, d'unité ou de cohérence. Certes, les approches dites culturalistes, pluralistes, ou internormatives semblent s'éloigner d'une représentation du droit comme ensemble unifié 21 . Néanmoins, la notion d'unité n'est le plus souvent pas abandonnée quoiqu'elle soit généralement peu développée 22 .…”