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This chapter describes the relationship between theory and reality of legal origins as seen from the point of view of advisors on governance and legal reforms in projects of the GIZ, the leading German organization of development cooperation. While acknowledging that legal origins theory helped legal advisors to make implicit values and principles of their work transparent as well as to focus on the precarious aspects of legal transplants, it emphasizes that the horizon of development includes both law and economics, but is wider than both. The goal of development as defined by Amartya Sen should be the enhancement of people’s capabilities—their freedom—to exercise the rights and entitlements according to their abilities and wishes. That goal is far from easy to attain, as evidenced by five types of mistakes, which over-confident advisors of any legal origin are prone to make. Long-term, context-oriented cooperation projects can avoid such mistakes by following a three-phase approach from approximation, through consolidation, to outreach and problem solving.
This chapter is an amalgamation of two representations, one to the workshop on “Institutional Competition between Common Law and Civil Law in Developing an Transforming Countries”, March 10, 2009 and one to the symposium on “Legal Origins and Access to Justice in Developing and Transforming Countries” February 16 and 17, 2012, both at the University of Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve.
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Stockmayer, A. (2014). The Trade Offs Between Common Law and Civil Law: Are We in the Right Ball Game?. In: Schmiegelow, M., Schmiegelow, H. (eds) Institutional Competition between Common Law and Civil Law. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54660-0_17
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