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Final Legal Transplants Presentation
Final Legal Transplants Presentation
Norms or Laws are seen as being imposed from above, through a chain of command.
Any legal changes or reforms are a matter of sovereign will and sovereign power (i.e., they occur by
way of decision-making located in centres of power).
• MICRO VIEW: this is a “bottom-up” method of legal analysis. It involves:
Investigating the engagement with legal transplants at an individual level i.e., analysing the social acts
of individuals when interacting with or implementing legal change. These individual acts can be
through verbal or non-verbal behaviour.
Acknowledging that language: