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Law and Development Minus Legal Transplants: The Example of China in Vietnam

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 April 2021

Matthew S. Erie  and
Do Hai Ha
Matthew S. Erie*
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
Do Hai Ha
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail: matthew.erie@orinst.ox.ac.uk
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Abstract

Legal transplants are broadly recognized as one of the main mechanisms by which donor states influence the legal development of recipient states. The experience of China, however, challenges convention. While, in recent years, China has been one of the largest capital-exporting countries in the world and has mobilized law to protect its investment in high-risk recipient states, legal transplants have, to date, not played a major role in China’s approach to law and development. This article examines this puzzle through the case of China’s participation in formulating Vietnam’s 2018 SEZ Bill. In doing so, this article sets forth a number of hypotheses as to why Chinese law has thus far not assumed the form of legal transplant. The example of the SEZ Bill demonstrates how Chinese legal transplants depend as much on the “pull” of recipient states as they do on the “push” of the donor. The case-study of the SEZ Bill raises important questions not only for Chinese law and development, but also, more generally, for the viability of “second-order” legal transplants: those from an Asian donor to an Asian recipient.

Keywords

law and developmentlegal transplantChinaVietnamindustrial policySEZ
Type
Legal transplants in contemporary Asia
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Asian Journal of Law and Society , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , June 2021 , pp. 372 - 401
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Asian Journal of Law and Society

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