Book contents
- Legal Transplants in East Asia and Oceania
- Legal Transplants in East Asia and Oceania
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Cases
- Table of Statutes
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I
- 1 The Legal Transplants Debate: Getting Beyond the Impasse?
- 2 Transplant Shock: the Hazards of Introducing Statutes of General Application
- 3 Bentham’s Theory of Legal Transplants and His Influence in Japan
- 4 On the Hardingian Renovation of Legal Transplants
- Part II
- Part III
- Index
- References
4 - On the Hardingian Renovation of Legal Transplants
from Part I
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 June 2019
- Legal Transplants in East Asia and Oceania
- Legal Transplants in East Asia and Oceania
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Cases
- Table of Statutes
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I
- 1 The Legal Transplants Debate: Getting Beyond the Impasse?
- 2 Transplant Shock: the Hazards of Introducing Statutes of General Application
- 3 Bentham’s Theory of Legal Transplants and His Influence in Japan
- 4 On the Hardingian Renovation of Legal Transplants
- Part II
- Part III
- Index
- References
Summary
In his chapter, Andrew Harding entertains the proposition of moving beyond the unhelpful dichotomy of effectiveness/ineffectiveness of transplantation. This paper provides a grounded (theory) approach as to how this can be achieved in relation to constitutional designs. If we apply the mechanism of inheritance to constitutions (as a transport phenomenon), and limit our analysis to federalism (as a modality of hypotaxis), and more specifically to the construct of vertical division of powers within federalism, would we be able to ascertain how such powers were adapted to local conditions in the constitutional designs of these different jurisdictions? The objective is to see if there has been such evolution, and the change in the inherited traits in the pre-constitutional phase (the design phase).
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- Legal Transplants in East Asia and Oceania , pp. 84 - 108Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019