GLH

Legal Pluralism as discussed in the Sally Engle Merry reading is the convergence of state laws into the normative orders within the grandeur social structure. Both state and normative laws function together, prevalently in colonial societies, to "modernize the Third World and create social justice in the First World." Laws created by a colonizing state infiltrate the pre-existing normative orders of a classified colony that all function within a joint social structure.                                   Given the example I created to better understand the concept of legal pluralism and Merry's analysis in the reading, I have settled on the conclusion that Legal Pluralism really only exists in an integration of cultures produced by economic activity/exploitation. As legal pluralism was practiced in colonized regions of the Third World, I feel that in this modern era legal pluralism is greatly practiced within the sphere of globalization and open markets. As markets bega