One, Two, Three, Many Legal Orders: Legal Pluralism and the Cosmopolitan Dream

Introduction

Over the last few years, innumerable scholars have turned their attention to the fragmentation, disaggregation, and multiplicity of the international legal regime. With so many diverse perspectives on the puzzle, the opportunity, the problem, of legal pluralism in international society, I would be crazy to try to pull it all together. In my view, we are far better off leaving the issue lying about in fragments.