Translatability and Transplantability of Law: Legal Translation and Comparative Law Brought Together Around the Concept of Legal Transplants
Legal transplants refer to the spread of legal ideas across legal and cultural borders and are seen as a crucial conduit of legal change. Sparked by Alan Watson’s scholarship, the legal transplant debate is a central theme of comparative law. One significant controversy it has engendered is, as put by Günter Frankenber...