This book provides an understanding of how States around the world, whether in the Global North or the Global South, deal with and organize the religious, ethnic, cultural and linguistic diversity within them and how, in the same vein, they deal with the plurality of opinions and legal systems.

Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen is Professor in Law at the Sorbonne Law School (University Paris 1) and Director of the Master 2 degree ''Human Rights and the European Union''. From 2012 to 2019, she was a member of the Constitutional Court of Andorra and was the President from 2014 to 2016.