Resumen

ARAGON ANDRADE, Orlando. El pluralismo jurídico en los juzgados comunales de Michoacán. Una propuesta teórica para su estudio. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2010, vol.5, n.9, pp.155-179. ISSN 1870-4115.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2010.9.163.

In this paper the author presents a preliminary analysis of the topic of Michoacan’s communal courts, given legal status in 2007 by the state’s indigenous normative systems. The objective of this contribution is focused on clarifying whether the legal production from these new courts—despite being fields of legal pluralism—maintain an equilibrium similar to that characterizing the state legality, or to the contrary, whether these courts possess additional elements of justice applied in Michoacan’s indigenous communities. In order to achieve this objective, the author draws upon the analytical proposal developed by Boaventura de Sousa Santos, who conceives of rhetoric, bureaucracy and violence as central elements in all types of Law.

Palabras llave : legal pluralism; communal courts; indigenous normative systems; Michoacan.