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... > social science subjects > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > law and society > sociology of law > legal exports as transplants
... > social science subjects > politics and international relations > political science > law and courts > law and society > sociology of law > legal exports as transplants
social science subjects > sociology > sociology of organizations, institutions and structure > sociology of law > legal exports as transplants

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legal exports as transplants  

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  • The term legal transplant refers to the domestic adoption by a state or community of a legal norm taken from elsewhere. Alan Watson popularized the term in 1974 in a book that used transplants as a tool for understanding legal history and described transplants historically as the principal source of legal change. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Transplants, Legal Exports As]

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