Redesigning Justice for Plural Societies

Katayoun Alidadi is Assistant Professor of Legal Studies at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island, USA, and Research Partner at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. Marie-Claire Foblets is Professor of Law at the University of Leuven, Belgium, and Director of the Department of Law & Anthropology at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. Dominik Müller is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany.

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Introduction: The Search for Justice in Plural Societies: The Opportunities and Pitfalls of Accommodative Law and Practices

PART 1: Overcoming Structural (Legislative or Otherwise) Barriers to Accommodation

1 Public Administrations and the Accommodation of Linguistic Diversity in the Dutch Language Area of Belgium

2 Accommodating Access to Property: Land Restitution and Formalization in Colombia

3 Recognition of New Religious Communities under Public Law in Switzerland: An Adequate Accommodation Tool?

4 Overcoming Discriminating Taboos in Societies: What the German Experience Can Teach Us about Ideas of (Re)designing Justice Abroad

5 The Spanish Observatory of Religious Pluralism: The Challenge of Fostering Accommodation through Information, Dissemination, and Research Activities

PART II: Islam and Political, Legal, and Economic Inclusion

6 Accommodation, Anxieties, and Ambivalence: Regulating Islam in Singapore

7 House Rules for Islam in Hamburg: The State Contract between the City of Hamburg and Three Islamic Communities

PART III: Accommodation and Indigenous Rights

8 Plurinational Law in the Bolivian Altiplano: Beyond Accommodation?

9 Seeking Solutions in the Land of the Long White Cloud: The Whanganui River Settlement in Aotearoa New Zealand as Accommodative Measure

PART IV: The Role of the Judiciary in Negotiating Plural Normativities

10 Anthropological Expertise in the Peruvian Intercultural Justice Project

11 (Re)designing Living Customary Law to Protect a First Wife in a Pluralistic Legal System: The South African Constitutional Court Has Spoken

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