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: Legal Theory BlogSalim on Legal Transplants in Post-Colonial States
By Lawrence Solum
Mohammad Rizal Salim (The University of Nottingham Malaysia campus) has posted Are Legal Transplants Impossible? (Journal of Comparative Law, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
The Malaysian case Soo Boon Siong @ Saw Boon Siong v Saw Fatt Seong & Soo Hock Seang provides evidence of the inherent impossibility of legal transplants. The impossibility in this case was not caused by differences of legal culture, but the inability of lawyers in a post-colonial state to keep pace with the increasing complexities of the law.
Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on August 29, 2009 (boomark / email).
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