Legal cultures between Europe and the Far East in historical context

• Authors: Michal Tomášek

Title variants

CS

Právní kultury mezi Evropou a Dálným východem v historickém kontextu

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper considers legal transplants and their launching into legal systems of countries in the Far East, namely China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam since 1868. The author follows the impact of individual foreign legal systems stemming from Continental Law (the German subsystem and the Roman subsystem) and Common Law. The impact of German law prevailed in the Far East countries listed above, but the influence of US law primarily in modern Japan should not be underestimated. The paper deals with the transposition of foreign patterns into the respective written law, i.e., law in books. In addition, it demonstrates through concrete examples how interpretation of the law in books developed, i.e., law in action, which quite often shifted the original European meaning closer to traditional East-Asian mode of thinking.

Keywords

EN

legal history; comparative law; legal transplants; China; Korea; Japan; Vietnam

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 121
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 441-480
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Michal Tomášek

• Historický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i., Prosecká 809/76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic