The article argues the need for a political economy of law approach as a first fundamental step in understanding of BRICS+ as a global institution. Countries in the BRICS + area display a tremendous amount of legal variation that has to be understood in its own terms outside of the judgmental mentality that has characterized Western Comparative Law. Only through such systematic effort of fundamental knowledge, it will be possible to facilitate the development of and institutional setting based on principles of cooperation, respect and mutual recognition. A list of some basic research and methodological questions, the first published description of the Chinese-Russian-Italian TOLZUMO project and a call for scholarly mobilization and participation in this dramatic phase of change in global hegemony complete the article.
Ugo Mattei (Wed,) studied this question.