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Peer reviewedBowers, James W. – Journal of Legal Education, 2002
Offers an elementary two-legal-jurisdiction analysis using conventional economic assumptions, exploring how and why a distinctive body of legal doctrine comes into being. Asserts that elementary economic theory offers the simplified answer that the legal doctrine will take the shape it does because it is efficient for the group that adopts it. (EV)
Descriptors: Civil Law, Comparative Analysis, Economics, Laws
