GLOBAL LEGAL INTERACTION AND LEGAL CULTURES | Asia Pacific Dispute Resolution

ID:	TARP-171
Title:	GLOBAL LEGAL INTERACTION AND LEGAL CULTURES
Source:	Ratio Juris, Vol. 7 No.2, page 132 – 145
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Year:	1994
Pages:	14
Author(s):	Volkmar Gessner
Keywords:	cross-cultural research, culture, European Union, European Communities, legal institutions, legal system, trade, legal culture, comparative law, international commercial law, harmonization
Abstract:	Culture consists of learned behavior, attitudes and values. It also consists of institutionalized forms of individual responses. Cultural stabilization through the repetition of behaviors and attitudes, leads to the building of social structures. Rules are among the most important structural elements of a society. In comparing national cultures a variety of indicators have been developed, like the different use of time, differences in communication, a more or less rigid definition of action chains and the difference in formal and informal information flow. The European Community produces an enormous amount of legal norms, regulating almost every area, like the economy, consumer protection and environment. It has implemented elaborate mechanisms in order to control the transformation of Community Law into domestic law of the member states. This legal harmonization appears to result in a common legal structure of Europe.
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