Paul Schiff Berman. Global Legal Pluralism: A Jurisprudence of Law Beyond Borders

The Evolution of Global Legal Pluralism

The Internet, Legal Regulation and Legal Pluralism

Considerable academic effort is being expended in considering how to regulate various activities on the internet, particularly those as relate to obscene material, breaches of privacy and challenges to intellectual property rights. Post and Johnson (1997) offer the following solution which is typical; 'We believe that the most obvious answer to this question -existing territorial sovereigns -ma...

ARTICLES : SPECIAL ISSUE LAW AND EVOLUTIONARY THEORY Global (Non-)Law: The Perspective of Evolutionary Jurisprudence

Globalization and the rules it generates confront legal scholarship with a number of intricate issues. 1 One of these lies at the core of a hypothesis which has been

Beyond borders

Editorial It is my honor to introduce the first issue of the Journal of Periodontal & Implant Science (JPIS) under the auspices of the Korean Academy of Periodontology (KAP) which has reached its 50th year of foundation. The KAP was established in 1960 and issued its first official publication, the Journal of the Korean Academy of Periodontology (JKAP) in 1971. Since then, it has been providing...

African Jurisprudence: The Law as a Complement to Public Morality

Every society is governed by certain rules (the law), customs, norms and values; and these are intricately crucial to the maintenance of public morality. Invariably, there is a public morality which provides the cement of any human society; the law, especially the criminal law, must regard it as a primary function to reflect and maintain this public morality. Criminal Codes lay down various off...