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Competing Legal Culture And Legal Reform: The Battle Of Chile, James Cooper
Competing Legal Culture And Legal Reform: The Battle Of Chile, James Cooper
James M. Cooper
This Article explores the competition that exists between U.S. and German legal cultures and examines Chilean legal reform efforts since the late 1990s as a case study of this competition. A country's legal culture is comprised of the self-governing rules and operations of national and regional bar associations, the format of legal education, the structure of the legal and judicial profession, the role of the judiciary, jurisprudential style, and the reputation of the legal sector according to the general public. The influence of predominant legal cultures on developing nations has been explored in a number of contexts, while the importance …