文档介绍：mune Lectures on European Private Law, 2
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LEGAL TRANSPLANTS AND EUROPEAN PRIVATE LAW
Alan WatsonErnest P. Rogers Professor of Law at the University of ia; Research Professor. Revised version of a paper delivered 18 May, 2000, at the conference The Contribution of Mixed Legal Systems to European Private Law, held at Maastricht University under the auspices of the mune Research School.
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Jan Smits asked me to talk about my book Legal TransplantsFirst edition, Edinburgh, 1974; second edition, Athens, Ga., 1993.
specifically in the context of Pierre Legrand’s critical article, ‘The Impossibility of “Legal Transplants”’.4 Maastricht Journal of European parative Law, 1997, pp. 111 ff. As a result of my remit this paper is diffuse: it ranges from evidence of massive transplants that have taken place, to my disagreement with Pierre Legrand, to the role of codes in legal transplants, to surviving differences after codification for a multiplicity of jurisdictions, to the example of the USA. Not all of these topics can be best treated one after the other but are at times intermingle