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Legal systems inside out: American legal exceptionalism and China's dream of legal cosmopolitanism

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What is the relationship between a legal systems’ foreign-facing elements and its domestic ones? Contrary to “dualistic” theories (“dualism,” “legal dualism,” the “dual state,” etc.) which suggest that a single legal system may encompass qualitatively different regimes regarding foreign and domestic legal questions, this Article takes the view that gaps between the foreign-facing and domestic aspects of a legal system may threaten that system’s legitimacy and, in turn, its sustainability. Com...

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Accepted
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Oxford college:
St Cross College
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0002-0422-3338
Publisher:
University of Pennsylvania Law School Publisher's website
Journal:
University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law Journal website
Acceptance date:
2022-12-23
ISSN:
1086-7872
Language:
English
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Pubs id:
1317418
Local pid:
pubs:1317418
Deposit date:
2022-12-29

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