Trust and the temporalities of lawFootnote

¹This volume is the result of a conference at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany, that marked the transition of the Project Group Legal Pluralism into the Department of Law and Anthropology. As it happened, it was to be the last scientific event for Franz von Benda-Beckmann, who passed away in January 2013. Renisa Mawani, Gerhard Anders, Friederike Stahlmann, and Mariana Valverde participated in the conference but have published or are in the process of publishing their contributions elsewhere. As I draw on their contributions, I shall refer to them in this introduction.

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