Commission on Legal Pluralism

The Commission on Folk Law and Legal Pluralism was established in 1978 by the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), and affiliated with the International Association of Legal Science (IALS), on the initiative of professor G. van den Steenhoven, of the Institute of Folk Law, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The Commission's four major current activities are: the issue of a Newsletter (thrice every two years); the organisation of international symposia; the initiation and encouragement of Regional Working Groups in different parts of the world; and the organization and delivery of courses and summer schools in legal pluralism.