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On Successful Legal Transplants in a Future Ius Commune Europaeum

Jan M. Smits
Tilburg University - Tilburg Institute of Comparative and Transnational Law (TICOM); University of Helsinki - Center of Excellence in Foundations of European Law and Polity

COMPARATIVE LAW IN THE 21ST CENTURY, Andrew Harding & Esin Örücü, eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002

Abstract:
This paper investigates to what extent legal transplants can contribute to the emergence of a harmonised private law for the European Union. Its focus is not on the way in which or why legal transplants take place, but on what they lead to. The paper discusses several views on why legal transplants are important and puts forward one particular view of legal harmonisation in which the borrowing of law is of main importance.

Keywords: Legal transplants, ius commune, harmonisation

JEL Classifications: K00

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Date posted: March 09, 2008 ; Last revised: March 09, 2008

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Smits, Jan M., On Successful Legal Transplants in a Future Ius Commune Europaeum. COMPARATIVE LAW IN THE 21ST CENTURY, Andrew Harding & Esin Örücü, eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1104422

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Jan M. Smits (Contact Author) Tilburg University - Tilburg Institute of Comparative and Transnational Law (TICOM) ( email ) P.O. Box 90153 NL-5000 LE Tilburg Netherlands HOME PAGE: http://www.jansmits.eu
University of Helsinki - Center of Excellence in Foundations of European Law and Polity ( email ) Porthania P.O. Box 4 Helsinki FIN-00014 Finland HOME PAGE: http://www.helsinki.fi/katti/foundations

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Date posted: March 09, 2008 ; Last revised: March 09, 2008

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Jan M. Smits (Contact Author)