Overview
This is a set of laws that work together to create a total set of laws.
What is legal pluralism?
Name at least one advantage of legal pluralism.
Equity, State Rights, Predictive Behavior, Human Rights Laws, Assisting Law Enforcement, Promoting New Ideas.
Wait until you THC the rest of this category. This product, which was made legal in Ohio on November 7th, is an example of plural legalism
What is marijuana or "weed?"
True or False: Legal Pluralism occurs in other countries and can affect the way laws are interpreted and applied within those jurisdictions.
True
Name at least one disadvantage of legal pluralism.
Capital punishment, confusion of overlapping laws, and forum shopping.
True or False: Legal Pluralism can occur through social practices, like unwritten rules or etiquette.
True
What is state rights?
These were specific examples used in the PowerPoint to describe how geography and environment influence legal pluralism.
Laws regarding beaches in Florida, Ohio, and Kansas.
These countries were used as examples to describe legal pluralism within indigenous cultures.
What is New Zealand or Canada?
In a legal pluralism framework, what governmental authority determines jurisdictional boundaries between different legal systems?
There isn't a single governmental authority; instead, jurisdictional boundaries are often negotiated or determined by agreements between the various legal systems and their respective governing bodies.
These are some broad examples of where legal pluralism occurs in day-to-day life.
What is Business Rules and Policy, Administrative Laws, Minimum-wage baseline, War-crime international laws, and Homeowners Associations?
This is the term to describe a advantage of legal pluralism, that creates a framework that better predicts how people are likely to behave based on changes in policies and regulations.
What is predictive behavior?
This constitutional amendment supports the idea of legal pluralism in the United States.
What is the 10th Amendment?
Cultural rules stem from this for the Maori people.
What is spirituality?
This was the topic discussed in the video during the presentation.
Legal pluralism in other countries and cultures, specifically Canada.
In day-to-day life, where is legal pluralism occurring that we as users see often?
Social Media Platforms
This is the term for the extended legal process and the punishment involving severe penalties like death.
What is Capital Punishment?
This term describes the growing fusion of national and international law, exemplified by the enforcement challenges seen in war-crime cases from conflicts such as the Russia-Ukraine war.
What is hybrid enforcement?
Signed in 1840, this treaty established a British colony in New Zealand while affirming Māori ownership over their lands and allowing them to maintain their cultural way of life.
What is the Treaty of Waitangi?
This is the term for different cultural groups within a society following their own sets of rules alongside national laws.
What is legal pluralism in action?
In this system of legal pluralism, what is the authority of the federal government concerning the minimum wage?
The federal government sets a minimum wage that all states must follow. States can choose to set their own higher minimum wages, but they can't go lower than the minimum set by the federal government.
This is a specific example listed in the PowerPoint that highlights a specific area where confusion may occur when following a set of laws. (e.g. state)
What is Alabama Hate Crime Laws?
In discussions regarding the relationship between colonial states and Indigenous communities, this term refers to the recognition of sovereign entities such as countries, not to be confused with US states, and defines a group of people with a shared trait, potentially leading to tensions over legal jurisdiction.
What is state-nation relations?
This system of behavioral guidelines, rooted in spirituality, guides daily living and interactions among the Maori people in New Zealand.
What is Tikanga Māori?
These are some difficulties or criticisms associated with legal pluralism.
Concerns about inconsistency or conflicts between different legal systems.