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The "Weak" Law: Contaminations And Legal.
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THE "WEAK" LAW: CONTAMINATIONS AND LEGAL CULTURES ITALIAN NATIONAL REPORT TO THE BRISTOL CONFERENCE By P.G.Monateri* Introduction: "Imperfect Alternatives" and the "Weak Thought" 2 PartI: Comparativism, Representation and Import 5 Culture and Difference. 5 Spread and Dissemination 8 Formants and Elites 10 The "Strategic" Model 12 Part II: A Portrait of Italy as a "Weak" Tradition. 15 The "Love affair" with the French 15 The "Coming of the Germans" 20 Conclusion: Convergence, Divergence and "Contamination" 24 Bibliography 26 Introduction: "Imperfect Alternatives" and the "Weak Thought" The subject matter of "Legal transplants" has been invented by Alan Watson for scholarly purposes in comparative legal studies1. But in the last decade the subject has been took over by purposive practical lawyers mainly involved in projects of "exporting" their own legal systems2, especially from the West, to the former Socialist countries, or to the vast exotic world of Non-westerners. These projects are normally explicit projects of governance based as they are on a quite clear cut political agenda, sometimes expressed in the old-fashioned jargon of the fifties centred on...
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