| 英文摘要 |
If the law is—or ought to be—the mirror of local society, is legal transplant an aberrance or exceptional phenomenon existing mostly in the (semi-) Periphery? Alternatively, if legal reception and legal pluralism are ubiquitous, how do we understand alien laws in local societies? This paper explores three main research areas related to legal transplants in the English-speaking world, namely comparative law, (post-) colonial legal studies, and legal globalization. Understand the coexisting, conflicting, and/or mutual constructive relations between imported laws and local societies. Furthermore, the paper provides a succinct account of research development regarding legal transplants in Taiwan, whose legal system has been (and continues to be) shaped and reshaped through several waves of legal receptions of the laws from the Center. Through such exercises, the paper aims to provide a tentative map for exploring laws’ mobilities and, at the same time, encourage researchers from the (semi-) Periphery to reconstruct questions and methods formulated in the Center, and to develop their own socio-legal studies with local subjectivity. |
