Scholarly interest in the transnational circulation of legal ideas has increased along with the
growth of global and regional trading blocks and law reform projects in developing
countries. 1 With few exceptions, most theoretical discussion about legal transfer comes
from the" country and western" tradition, which emphasizes formal law or" parent" civil and
common law legal systems from the European and North American experiences. 2 This
tradition tends to de-emphasize or entirely ignore other legal traditions and less formal kinds …