Navigating Legal Pluralism: NGOs as Jurisgenerative Actors
摘要
This chapter reconceptualises NGOs as jurisgenerative actors. They are described as agents that do not merely operate within legal pluralism but actively reshape it. In the legally layered contexts of the Global South, NGOs combine state law, custom, religious norms, and international frameworks to generate hybrid legal meanings. This chapter explores how NGOs negotiate, interpret, and contest norms to advance justice via the prism of interlegality. It highlights their ethical quandaries, their epistemic authority, and their legitimacy, all of which they must constantly negotiate. Rooted in local issues, NGOs navigate the meshed distance between grassroots realities and international norms, fostering more general legal dialogue. Through case studies and theoretical insights, the chapter builds on Berman’s (2007) notion of ‘jurisgenerativity’ to argue that NGOs are not peripheral participants but co-authors of legal meaning in a plural legal world.