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Translation, Codification And Transplantation Of Foreign Laws In Taiwan, Tay-Sheng Wang National Taiwan University College Of Law Mar 2014

Translation, Codification And Transplantation Of Foreign Laws In Taiwan, Tay-Sheng Wang National Taiwan University College Of Law

Tay-sheng Wang National Taiwan University College of Law

Taiwan is an excellent example to rethink the significance of translation and codification of law in the process of the transplantation of modern law in the East Asian countries. Regardless of its strangeness to the general public, the translation of Western laws was always codified for the purpose of “receiving” modern law in Meiji Japan. Those Japanese Westernized legal codes were also taken into effect in Taiwan during the later period of Japanese colonial rule, although Japanese colonialists initially applied the Taiwanese customary law, created by Western legal terminology, to the Taiwanese for decreasing their resistance to the new regime. …


A Canada Evidence Code Should Replace The Canada Evidence Act, Ken Chasse Mr. Jan 2014

A Canada Evidence Code Should Replace The Canada Evidence Act, Ken Chasse Mr.

Ken Chasse Mr.

The need for codification of the law of evidence in Canada, and the failed effort to enact an Evidence Code. A detailed description of the national consultation process and its results is provided.