Transplants from Different Legal Families in Comparative Law
The Case of the Incorporation of US Common Law Institutions into Cuba for State-Building Purposes (1898-1902)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14296/ac.v7i1.5825Abstract
This article aims to provide a detailed account of receptions and transplants from the United States (US) into Cuban domestic law within the period of military occupation (1898-1902). The underlying assumption points to the particular history of the rough exposition of Cuban continental-style law to the overwhelming influence of US common law at the beginning of the twentieth century. There is scant evidence of this phenomenon in the Hispanic-American area. However, the particularities of Cuban law provide almost laboratory conditions for the insightful study and analysis of dynamic complex interactions between legal families through transplants and receptions.
Keywords: comparative law; legal transplants; legal families; Cuban law; US common law.
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