The term legal transplant was coined in the 1970s by the Scottish legal scholar W. A. J. Alan Watson to indicate the moving of a rule or a system of law from one country to another, in his 1974 book Legal Transplants: An Approach to Comparative Law, published in Edinburgh. The notion of legal transplantation is based on diffusionism, and according to this concept most changes in most legal systems occur as the result of borrowing. As Watson maintained, transplantation is the most fertile source of legal development in his account of comparative law.
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The term legal transplant was coined in the 1970s by the Scottish legal scholar W.A.J. 'Alan' Watson to indicate the moving of a rule or a system of law from one country to another (A.
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The term legal transplant was coined in the 1970s by the Scottish legal scholar W.A.J. 'Alan' Watson to indicate the moving of a rule or a system of law from one country to another (A. Watson, Legal Transplants: An Approach to Comparative Law, Edinburgh, 1974).
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