The EU and the many faces of legal pluralism toward a coherent or uniform EU legal order? (p377-391)

In the last decade or so, legal academia has witnessed a literal explosion of discourse of legal pluralism. Far from being an exception here, the field of EU law is at the forefront. In this paper we will try to explain
briefly what the reasons for this are, and above all what legal pluralism, in its various forms, actually stands for. For this purpose, we will compare the so-called classical conceptions of legal pluralism on the one
hand, and legal pluralism as it has emerged in the European Union on the other hand. It will be argued that the classical conceptions of legal pluralism fall short of explaining, and are conceptually different from, the
legal pluralism that has been taking root within the EU.