Beschreibung:
This volume provides the first sustained analysis examining legal transplantation into East Asia. In addition to developing theoretical insights, the project provides a textured account of the political, economic and legal discourses guiding commercial law reforms in Vietnam
Contents: Introduction - law reform by legal transplantation; Developing a legal transplantation theory; A brief history of legal transplantation into Vietnam; Transforming socialist legal ideology; Party leadership: the separation of party and state; Discursive and strategic lawmaking; Implementing imported laws; Non-state pressure groups and legal borrowing; The rule of law and Vietnamese relational transactions; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.