Batricevic on Legal Transplants: The Case of Medieval Serbia

Ana Batricevic, University of Belgrade, has posted a paper on SSRN: Legal Transplants and the Code of Serbian Tsar Stephan Dushan: A Comparative Study. Here's the abstract:

This Comparative Study investigates the spontaneous convergence of law in the cultural and social milieu of medieval Serbia under the reign of Tsar Stephan Urosh IV Dushan (1331-1355). It argues that legal transplants, as a means of this convergence in the Code of Dushan, constitute a fruitful source of medieval Serbia's legal development. The process of legal transplantation has long been the subject of a polarized debate in international academic circles and has generated opposing approaches to the transfer of legal regulations or entire systems of law from one country to another. The approach to diffusion herein comprises a synthesis of multiple methodologies of comparative law (and jurisprudence on the whole) supplemented with the routes of non-legal disciplines. Such interdisciplinary approach facilitates an exhaustive insight into legal transplants and their applicability as a concept of legal development. This Comparative Study offers a systematic rationalization for legal transplants in Middle-age Serbia and draws some general tendencies with regard to the overall diffusion of law.

Evo ga link: http://ssrn.com/abstract=953277

1970-ih godina američki profesor pravne istorije i romanista Alan Votson razvio je teoriju po kojoj većina promena u većini pravnih sistema događa se kao rezultat pravnih pozajmica ("transplanata"). On smatra da je transplantovanje prava najvredniji izvor pravnog razvoja, od najranijih vremena do danas. Model pravnih transplanata je sada primenjen i na srpsko srednjovekovno pravo i Dušanov zakonik u radu "Legal Transplants and the Code of Serbian Tsar Stephan Dushan", koji je dostupan na američkoj mreži za izučavanje društvenih nauka pod sledećim linkom: http://ssrn.com/abstract=953277. Rad razmatra teoriju pravnih transplanata, primenjuje je na državu Srba i Grka, pruža uvod u pravnu istoriju te države, a zatim komparativno analizira pojedine institute, upoređuje pojedine redakcije pravne zbirke, kao i druge slovenske zakonike tog doba. Preporučujem ovu studiju za čitanje...