polycentric law

This concept is similar to Polycentric law.

He mentions Anglo-Saxon customary law, church law, guild law, and merchant law as examples of polycentric law.

A Critical Review of the Polycentric Legal Order," criticize the concept of polycentric law.

He has written some of the leading libertarian or anarchist law and economics perspectives on regulation, criminalization, commercial law, and native American law (see also: private law, polycentric law).

MacCallum compares the Xeer to the common law in 6th century Scotland, and notes that there is no monopoly of either police nor judicial services, a condition of polycentric law.

Polycentric law is a legal structure in which providers of legal systems compete or overlap in a given jurisdiction, as opposed to monopolistic statutory law according to which there is a sole provider of law for each jurisdiction.

In "Polycentric Law in the New Millennium," which won first place in the Mont Pelerin Society's 1998 Friedrich A. Hayek Fellowship competition, Bell predicts three areas where polycentric law might develop: alternative dispute resolution, private communities, and the Internet.