Abstract

The essay identifies three possible interpretations of interlegality as process, result or method. Attention is paid to two categories of socio-legal actors: Muslim women and men navigating across different normativities while living as a minority in Western contexts; as well as the institutionalised legal actors such as legislators, courts, diplomatic personnel, and public notaries. The examined judicial and extrajudicial case-studies cover a wide territorial spectrum (from Italy to Australia, from the UK to some EU countries), and the investigated dynamics range from parliamentary debates to legislative reforms, from inheritance to family laws, from personal to financial relationships, from Muslim practices to culturally motivated crimes. Building upon key-theories and reformulating critical questions, the paper brings to light new hybrid systems and fluid phenomena as emerging in potentially contested legal fields.