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Legal Pluralism in Post-Colonial Legal Systems

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Most post-colonial states today are legally plural, meaning that at least two different legal systems operate side by side within the same territory—state law inherited from the colonizer and customary or religious laws that predate or co-evolved with it.

Why this is interesting

You live under a single legal system? Think again. In many countries, one can be governed by state law, religious law, and customary law all in the same day. How did that happen?