ABSTRACT
The primary aim of legal orders is to maintain peace in society by providing mechanisms for avoiding or resolving conflicts. There is no doubt that, caused primarily by developments of broad globalisation and migration, the ideas concerning the structure and tasks of legal orders have diversified among the European population. The chapter examines the possible models of regulating the existing competition between normative systems, since very often debates on rethinking or reform of the existing orders suffer from different pre-understandings, which are not always taken into consideration. The main needs with regard to rethinking European legal practice concern religious minorities, particularly in connection with migration phenomena. In Britain, certain Muslim groups have sought the introduction of a general system of religious law in matrimonial, family and succession matters according to such traditions. In principle, the relation between the necessary amount of normative unity and diversity for a particular society has to be defined and possibly adjusted.
