ABSTRACT

In considering diffusion from a global perspective, this book provides timely new insights into its application in a variety of fields and at many levels of both legal and non-legal orderings. This collection contributes to the wider theoretical debate concerning the movement of law and legal norms by engaging with concrete examples of legal diffusion, in jurisdictions as diverse as Albania, the Czech Republic, Poland and Kuwait. These examples, taken together, provide a comprehensive illustration of the theoretical debates concerning the diffusion of laws and norms in terms of both process and form. This international, multi-disciplinary and multi-methodological volume brings together scholars from law and social science with experience in mixed and hybrid jurisdictions, and advances the conversation about legal and normative diffusion across the academy. It represents a robust challenge to many preconceived ideas about legal movement and, as such, will be of interest to academics and students working in the fields of Law, Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science, Legal Education and comparative method.

chapter |18 pages

Infusion of the Diffused

Four Circles of Diffusion Infusing the Legal System of Turkey

chapter |22 pages

The Diffusion of Western Legal Concepts in Kuwait

Reflections on the State, the Legal System and Legal Education from Comparative and Historical Perspectives

chapter |12 pages

Diffusion of Islamic Law in the UK

The Case of the ‘Special Guardianship'

chapter |18 pages

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

Common Law and its Local Variations in the Commonwealth

chapter |14 pages

‘Lease, Locazioni and Kera'

Merging Legal Concepts in Postcolonial Malta

chapter |12 pages

Law in Changing Circumstances

Evolution of Liability for Succession Debts in Poland

chapter |10 pages

‘Svěřenský fond' (Trust Fund)

A Daring New Legal Transplant in Czech Law

chapter |22 pages

Diffusing Bad Ideas

What the Migration of the Separation of Powers Means for Comparative Law