Adapting Legal Cultures

by Johannes Feest

Book Overview

This exciting collection looks at the theory and practice of legal borrowing and adaptation in different areas of the world: Europe, the USA and Latin America, S.E. Asia and Japan. Many of the contributors focus on fundamental theoretical issues. What are legal transplants? What is the role of the state in producing socio-legal change? What are the conditions of successful legal transfers? How is globalisation changing these conditions? Such problems...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841132926
• ISBN13: 9781841132921
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"