ABSTRACT
This book explores overlapping themes, asking how legal development and change actually work. We approach the questions in comparative, empirical terms, searching for answers in specific legal system examples, rather than pursuing theory in the abstract. Thus we ask questions about traditional schools like “modernization theory” or “Law and Development,” but we do so within a framework of 23 country chapters. There are now non-Western legal development alternatives, so we need a better way to ask comparable questions of different approaches.
