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Preferred term
legal exports as transplants
Definition
- The term legal transplant refers to the domestic adoption by a state or community of a legal norm taken from elsewhere. Alan Watson popularized the term in 1974 in a book that used transplants as a tool for understanding legal history and described transplants historically as the principal source of legal change. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Transplants, Legal Exports As]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/legal_exports_as_transplants
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