Considerations of legal pluralism and human rights do not go readily hand in hand – on the face of it they appear to have different core concerns and motivations, with the former being conceptual in character while the latter is normative (Provost & Sheppard 2012: 1). This panel challenges this alleged incompatibility, and proceeds on the grounds that a reading of human rights as being solely about universal norms is an overly narrow one, instead submitting that a preferable approach is one that reflects upon the operation of international human rights norms within varied, co-existing and overlapping legal regimes.