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The Circulation of Legal Phenomena: Past Lessons and Recent Issues

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Specialists in comparative law are studying for a long time what is called ‘legal transplants’, what means the circulation of legal phenomena from one space to another. The debates remain open about the characters of these circulations, especially in a globalized world. This contribution proposes to distinguish the transfer of legal statements (1), the diffusion of legal ideas (2) and the worldwide acculturation of legal theories (3) in order to understand what are the features and the range of these circulations. It is the matter of recognizing the possibility of these circulations, their strong impacts during the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, their transformations and their limits in the today world.

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  1. École Normale Supérieure Paris, Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France

    Jean-Louis Halpérin

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  1. University of Lyon, Lyon, France

    Jean-Sylvestre Bergé

  2. Faculté de droit, sciences économiques et de gestion, BETA—CNRS UMR, University of Lorraine, EonomiX, Université Paris Nanterre, France

    Sophie Harnay

  3. IAE Lyon, Lyon University, Lyon, France

    Ulrike Mayrhofer

  4. Department of Anthropology, Université Lyon 2, Lyon, France

    Lionel Obadia

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Halpérin, JL. (2018). The Circulation of Legal Phenomena: Past Lessons and Recent Issues. In: Bergé, JS., Harnay, S., Mayrhofer, U., Obadia, L. (eds) Global Phenomena and Social Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60180-9_8

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