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Of Legal Transplants, Legal Irritants, And Economic Development, Katharina Pistor, Daniel Berkowitz
Of Legal Transplants, Legal Irritants, And Economic Development, Katharina Pistor, Daniel Berkowitz
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The collapse of the socialist system has given way to unprecedented economic and legal reforms in the former socialist countries. Over the past decade they have enacted new legislation in all areas of the law, drawing heavily on legal models from developed market economies, including common law and civil law countries. While the transplanted laws now on the books is largely consistent with Western practice, the enforcement of these new laws is often ineffective (Berkowitz, Pistor, and Richard, 2003).