Patchwork Law Reform: Your Idea Is Good in Practice, but It Won't Work in Theory

This article elaborates a conception of law reform that is pluralistic, interactional, non-formulaic, attentive to implicit normativity and not exclusively instrumental. It argues that law reform practice is always informed by theory. Where theory is inadequate, law reform practice is likely to resu...

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Main Author: Kong, Hoi (Author)
Contributors: MacDonald, Roderick A.
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: 2006
In:Year: 2006
Online Access: Volltext (kostenfrei)
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