The obvious phenomenon in what some call “world society” is not the existence of a common legal culture, but global legal pluralism. State law (including international law); hybrid norms such as international standards or codes of conduct; regime norms; global actor norms (churches, organized crime, or sport organizations); and nongovernmental organization (NGO) norms are all competitors in regulating or supporting global interaction. State law embeds itself in a multitude of (national) legal cultures, as are all other formal or informal normative systems. Many assume that this picture of a colorful patchwork will soon become outdated due to the harmonization efforts attempted through international agreements and the integrative influence of regionalization and globalization processes.