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While Watson was not the first to delve into the transfers of law across legal systems' boundaries, his seminal contribution marked the beginning of a sophisticated research stream, reaching the status of a comparative law paradigm. The paper advocates for the wider adoption of the concept of legal transplants by scholars, lawmakers and practitioners as a valuable intellectual framework. To substantiate the claim that the transplant theory is indeed a paradigm of comparative law, the author undertakes its reconstruction based on six key components, providing a concise overview of the central tenets of the legal transplant scholarship. The sheer volume of this scholarship shows that what Watson projected back in 1974 in the subtitle of his book has indeed come true. This paper also argues for building connections between legal transplants and related research streams, including cultural diffusion, diffusion of innovations and policy transfer.