A novel dataset on legal traditions, their determinants, and their economic role in 155 transplants.

ABSTRACT: The law and the economy are deeply influenced by the legal tradition or origin, which is the bundle of institutions shaping lawmaking and dispute adjudication. The two principal legal traditions, common law and civil law, have been transplanted through colonization and occupation to the vast majority of the jurisdictions in the world by a group of European countries. Here, I illustrate a novel dataset recording the lawmaking institution employed by 155 of these jurisdictions at independence and in 2000 and four discretion-curbing adjudication institutions adopted by 99 of these "transplants" at the same two points in time. Contrary to the "legal origins" scholars׳ assumption, 25 transplants changed the transplanted lawmaking institution and 95 modified at least one of the transplanted lawm

SUBMITTER: Guerriero C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4908268 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature