By Niccolò Nobile, Student, Università degli Studi di Milano
Globalization may be defined as “the totality and velocity of connections and interactions – be they economic, political, social, cultural – that are sometimes beyond the control or even the knowledge of government and other authorities”[1]. So globalization is, first and foremost, a matter of interactions.
What about global interactions in the legal field? There is no doubt that globalization has fostered this kind of interactions nurturing the coexistence of different legal forms in the same social field, at both national and supranational level. Scholars tend to refer to this phenomenon as legal pluralism.
Closing his remarks at the National Defense University, Mr. Haas observed: “Globalization is a reality, not a choice or a policy. But how we respond to it is a matter of choice and of policy”[2] . It could be drafted an analogy between globalization and legal pluralism: the latter is, as a matter of fact, a reality that challanges legal systems at both national and supranational level.
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