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Law without the state
Law
without the
state
is
law
made primarily outside of the power of a state.
Such law may be
established
in several ways:
It may
emerge
in
systems
such as
existed
in
feudal Europe
prior
to the
emergence
of the
modern
nation state
with the
treaty of Westphalia
.
It can be established as
customary law
such as that practiced by
indigenous communities
.
Non-state actors
may
create
it, for
instance
in the form of "soft law".
According to various
anarchist
theories
, it could result from how a
society
would
organize
itself without
formal
government
.