Plural Legal Orders: Concept and Practice

Dorsett, S

Plural Legal Orders: Concept and Practice

Dorsett, S

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Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: The Cambridge Legal History of Australia, 2022, 1, pp. 19-39
Issue Date:: 2022-08-18

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dc.contributor.author	Dorsett, S https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3541-5164
dc.contributor.editor	Cane, P
dc.contributor.editor	Ford, L
dc.contributor.editor	McMillan, M
dc.date.accessioned	2025-01-13T22:43:36Z
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dc.date.issued	2022-08-18
dc.identifier.citation	The Cambridge Legal History of Australia, 2022, 1, pp. 19-39
dc.identifier.isbn	1108586015
dc.identifier.isbn	9781108586016
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/183401
dc.description.abstract	This chapter examines how we think about questions of plurality and the relations between legal orders. It does so through a specific history of the engagement between Indigenous legal orders and the Australian common law from the perspective of the latter. This chapter approaches legal plurality through the specific lens of thinking, both conceputally and practically, with jurisdiction. It looks at the ways in which the technology of jurisdiction has worked to obscure Indigenous legal orders and hence plurality. The chapter notes the increasing division between the approach of the High Court of Australia to plurality – as a matter to be contained or ignored - and the increasingly careful histories being written of our plural pasts and present.
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dc.title	Plural Legal Orders: Concept and Practice
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Abstract:

This chapter examines how we think about questions of plurality and the relations between legal orders. It does so through a specific history of the engagement between Indigenous legal orders and the Australian common law from the perspective of the latter. This chapter approaches legal plurality through the specific lens of thinking, both conceputally and practically, with jurisdiction. It looks at the ways in which the technology of jurisdiction has worked to obscure Indigenous legal orders and hence plurality. The chapter notes the increasing division between the approach of the High Court of Australia to plurality – as a matter to be contained or ignored - and the increasingly careful histories being written of our plural pasts and present.

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