Abstract
Abstract The study of legal pluralism in empires has far-reaching implications for comparative legal history, world history, the history of international law, and the study of global legal pluralism. This chapter highlights three insights developed within this perspective and discusses some promising future directions for research. The first insight flows from the observation that jurisdictional politics in empires played a formative role in structuring processes of conquest and colonization. The second involves the finding that patterns of legal pluralism in empires influenced foundational legal and political ideas, in particular concepts of rights and sovereignty. A third derives from the analytical move of placing imperial legal politics at the heart of histories of global ordering. This chapter reviews each of these facets of the analysis of legal pluralism in empires to identify some critical lessons for understandings of global legal pluralism.
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