Berman article reprinted in Brazilian journal


<p>An article, “Global Legal Pluralism,” by Dean Paul Schiff Berman of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, is now posted on the Brazil-based website, <a href="http://apps.unibrasil.com.br/revista/index.php/direito/issue/view/22">U… Cadernos de Escola de Direito e Relaçoes Internacionais</a> (Notebook of Law School and International Relations).</p><separator></separator><p>“This article grapples with the complexities of law in a world of hybrid legal spaces, where a single act or actor is potentially regulated by multiple legal or quasi-legal regimes,” Berman writes. “In order to conceptualize this world, I introduce literature on legal pluralism, and I suggest that, following its insights, we need to realize that normative conflict among multiple, overlapping legal systems is unavoidable and might even sometimes be desirable, both as a source of alternative ideas and as a site for discourse among multiple community affiliations.”</p><separator></separator><p>Berman’s scholarship focuses on the intersection of international law, conflict of laws, cyberspace law, and the cultural analysis of law.&nbsp;Before arriving at ASU, Berman was the Jesse Root Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law. Berman earned his A.B., <em>summa cum laude</em>, from Princeton University in 1988 and his J.D. in 1995 from New York University School of Law, where he served as Managing Editor of the <em>NYU Law Review</em>.</p>