Notwithstanding the well-known differences that run through cultures and traditions, the
West has never stopped trying to export its own law into the rest of the world. During and …

" Practicing law" has a dual meaning in this book. It refers to both the occupational practice
of law and the practicing of transplanted laws and institutions to perfect them. The book …

It was a cold winter afternoon in Beijing. The events assistant in the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP) refilled the teacups for the guests in the small conference …

This paper aims to review and assess the contributions and limitations of law and
development (L&D) as a field of legal scholarship in relation to the constitution of the …

The article analyses a series of decisions by the Constitutional Court of Ecuador on the
rights of nature generally, and the rights of rivers and water bodies specifically. The selected …

Based on fourteen months of ethnographic research on the central money exchange bazaar
in Kabul, Afghanistan—Sarai Shahzada—this article examines the micro-dynamics of legal …

This chapter situates the current expansion of law and development initiatives in Myanmar
within the broader history of the field of law and development. It introduces the themes in the …

作为当代比较法研究的前沿领域, 外援型比较法是一门立足于对外法律援助实践,
旨在通过法律移植促进受援国法律改革的应用型研究. 在移植立场上, 这一课题主张进化主义 …

Suppose you want to know which rules apply to the contractual relationship between the
operator of a communications or energy network and the users of that network. Or suppose …

This article considers how and why the legal concept of public figure, which holds public
figures to a higher standard that makes it more difficult for them to recover damages when …