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LEGAL TRANSPLANTS IN LEGISLATION: DEFUSING THE TRAP

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2008

Helen Xanthaki
Helen Xanthaki
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Dr H Xanthaki (LLB, Athens; M Jur; PhD, Dunelm) is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London; and Academic Director, Sir William Dale Centre for Legislative Studies, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.
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International & Comparative Law Quarterly , Volume 57 , Issue 3 , July 2008 , pp. 659 - 673
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2 Some view engagement in comparative research as ‘causing an undesired slowing down of the legislative process’; see W Duk, Wetgeving en rechtsvergelijking, Preadvies voor de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Rechtsvergelijking, no. 34 (Kluwer Law International, The Hague, 1984) 130–1.

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