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From The Ali To The Ili: The Efforts To Export An American Legal Institution, Jayanth K. Krishnan
From The Ali To The Ili: The Efforts To Export An American Legal Institution, Jayanth K. Krishnan
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
In this Article, the Author argues that those who believe that Americans can successfully export their visions of law and legal research to other countries need to consider--in addition to Japan and Germany, two countries that are often touted as exemplars--the case of India. India gained its independence from the British in 1947, and soon thereafter many U.S. experts traveled to India in an effort to foster a culture of Western legal intellectualism. As part of their mission to improve the status of law in India, the Americans, upon their arrival, strongly advocated for the construction of a national Indian …