From Legal Transplants to Policy Irritants: Chinese Economic Expansion and Global Legal Change
Pages 430–472, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avaf021
Since the 1970s, comparative law scholars have studied “legal transplants”: legal institutions that emerged in one location and then were moved to (or forced upon) another. This research agenda offers little traction on one of today’s most pressing questions of global legal change.