A study of legal reform between 1965 and 1995 in six Asian countries found a discernible
shift from local discretionary rules to imported Western commercial norms-evidence of
convergence in market-based legal strategies and commercial legislation but not
necessarily in legal institutions-legal transplantation-Vietnam's pre-colonial legal system-
transplanting the Chinese legal system-imported knowledge systems in imperial Vietnam-
history of political-legal borrowing-conceptualising political-legal thinking in contemporary …