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Centaur Jurisprudence : culture before the law / René Provost -- Legal pluralism and the interpretive limits of law / Anthony J. Connolly -- Family law, state recognition and intersecting spheres/spaces : jewish and muslim women diorcing in the United Kingdom / Pascale Fournier -- Customary norms vs state law : French courts' responses to the traditional practice of excision -- Law, culture, and fact in indigenous claims : legal pluralism as a problem of recognition / Kirsten Anker -- On perpetuity : tradition, law and the pluralism of Hopi jurisprudence / Justin B Richland -- "Existing in he hyphen" : on relational legal culture / Jennifer Hendry -- The unexpected effects of the recognition of indigenous rights in New Caledonia : the story of an assimilation measure becoming the trigger for the acculturation of the French legal system / Thomas Burelli & Régis Lafargue -- Cultures of conflict : welcoming and resisting " Non-Western" influence in alternative dispute resolution / Eric H. Reiter -- Rebalancing power and culture? The case of alternative disputte resolution / Morgan Brigg -- Grassroots law in context : moving beyond the cultural justification / Kristin Doughty -- Cannibal laws / René Provost -- Beyond the paradox of exporting the rule of law : resilience and the war on drugs in the Americas / David Chandler