Author
Turner, B. S., Arslan, Berna Zengin
Publication Date
2014-08
Publication Place
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Wiley
Subject
Eugene Ehrlich, Greece, Legal centralism, Legal pluralism, Shari'a, Sovereignty, Turkey
Type
Periodical
Language
English
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Özyeğin University
Library Asset ID
1467-954X
Record ID
3cdded88-2220-4ed3-b03b-b1a093379a6c
Library Location
Humanities and Social Sciences
Date
2014-08
Notes
Due to copyright restrictions, the access to the full text of this article is only available via subscription.
Sample Text
The creation of a national and unified legal system was an important aspect of the rise of the modern state and national citizenship. However, this interpretation of legal rationalization has been challenged by sociologists of law such as Eugene Ehrlich (1862–1922) who claimed that this juridical theory of state-centred law masked the presence of customary laws outside this formal system. In critical theories of the law, legal pluralism is proposed against the idea of legal sovereignty or legal centralism. In this article we explore the implications of the growth of the Shari'a as an example of legal pluralism. We take Turkey and Greece as two interesting but different examples of legal pluralism and consider the implications of these case studies for debates about liberalism, multiculturalism and citizenship in multi-faith societies.
DOI
10.1111/1467-954X.12117
Cilt
62
