Legal transplantation: the making of Chinese marine insurance law

Legal transplantation is a form of law-making. Scholars have advanced many theories in an endeavour to explain precisely how legal transplantation works, or indeed to challenge whether it is a reality. However, these theories are not tested by empirical evidence. This thesis is a study of the streng...

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Main Author: Wang, Jia
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2023
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description Legal transplantation is a form of law-making. Scholars have advanced many theories in an endeavour to explain precisely how legal transplantation works, or indeed to challenge whether it is a reality. However, these theories are not tested by empirical evidence. This thesis is a study of the strengths and weaknesses of the current theories of legal transplantation by subjecting them to empirical scrutiny in the context of a particular transplantation, namely the making of Chinese marine insurance law. English marine insurance law constitutes the dominant paradigm in two Chinese attempts of making marine insurance law by legal transplantation. The thesis has employed two methods to conduct this socio-legal study of the process of making Chinese marine insurance law by transplantation, namely legal historical analysis and empirical qualitative interviews. The case study will reveal that legal transplantation is extremely fact-sensitive. When tested in the Chinese experience, all the existing theories of legal transplantation are deficient in greater or lesser respect, although they make useful contributions to understanding this form of law- making.
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spelling nottingham-739772025-02-28T15:18:28Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/73977/ Legal transplantation: the making of Chinese marine insurance law Wang, Jia Legal transplantation is a form of law-making. Scholars have advanced many theories in an endeavour to explain precisely how legal transplantation works, or indeed to challenge whether it is a reality. However, these theories are not tested by empirical evidence. This thesis is a study of the strengths and weaknesses of the current theories of legal transplantation by subjecting them to empirical scrutiny in the context of a particular transplantation, namely the making of Chinese marine insurance law. English marine insurance law constitutes the dominant paradigm in two Chinese attempts of making marine insurance law by legal transplantation. The thesis has employed two methods to conduct this socio-legal study of the process of making Chinese marine insurance law by transplantation, namely legal historical analysis and empirical qualitative interviews. The case study will reveal that legal transplantation is extremely fact-sensitive. When tested in the Chinese experience, all the existing theories of legal transplantation are deficient in greater or lesser respect, although they make useful contributions to understanding this form of law- making. 2023-06-24 Thesis (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/73977/1/Jia%20Wang_PhD%20Thesis.pdf Wang, Jia (2023) Legal transplantation: the making of Chinese marine insurance law. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham. Legal transplantation Chinese marine insurance law Socio-legal studies Chinese law
spellingShingle Legal transplantation
Chinese marine insurance law
Socio-legal studies
Chinese law
Wang, Jia
Legal transplantation: the making of Chinese marine insurance law
title Legal transplantation: the making of Chinese marine insurance law
title_full Legal transplantation: the making of Chinese marine insurance law
title_fullStr Legal transplantation: the making of Chinese marine insurance law
title_full_unstemmed Legal transplantation: the making of Chinese marine insurance law
title_short Legal transplantation: the making of Chinese marine insurance law
title_sort legal transplantation: the making of chinese marine insurance law
topic Legal transplantation
Chinese marine insurance law
Socio-legal studies
Chinese law
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/73977/