Gad Barzilai
University of Washington

Professor of International Studies, Law, and Political Science, University of Washington. e-mail: gbarzil@u.washington.edu. Acknowledgements: I would like
to thank Yishai Blank, Talia Fisher, Menachem Mautner, Assaf Likhovski, Alberto Spektorowski, the editorial board ofTheoretical Inquiries in Law, and the anonymous
external referee for their excellent helpful comments during the workshop on Legal Pluralism, Privatization of Law and Multiculturalism at Tel Aviv University (May 2007) and in the process of revising this Article. The responsibility is all mine.