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The Case for Legal Pluralism GAVIN W. ANDERSON, Constitutional Rights After Globalization (Oxford and Portland, Hart Publishing 2005) 156 p., ISBN 1841134481

This is a peculiar book. According to its title, it seems to deal with the problem of the existence and implementation of constitutional rights in an era where the importance of national states is diminishing. The main body of the book, however, is not about constitutional rights at all, but is a criticism of, what is called by Anderson, liberal legalism. This liberal legalism is, he argues, the dominant paradigm in the profession, but it is seriously flawed. Happily, Anderson has an alternative: the doctrine of legal pluralism, which, according to him, is the principal rival of liberal legalism (p. 44). In the introductory chapter and in the last part of the book, constitutional rights and legal pluralism come together: Anderson believes that the doctrine of legal pluralism can provide us with a better understanding of the modern problem of rights’ constitutionalism. The problem is, in his view, that political power is not only in the hands of traditional political actors (such as kings and governments) but also in the hands of powerful economic actors, who are supported by neoliberal globalization and protected by traditional human rights. Those powerful economic actors are, it seems, beyond any control.