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2014 , Vol. 9 >Issue 2: 233 - 251

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3868/s050-003-014-0014-8

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MACAO’S LEGAL SYSTEM UNDER GLOBALIZATION AND REGIONAL INTEGRATION: BETWEEN TRADITION AND EVOLUTION

  • WEI Dan
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  • Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal; Associate Professor and Director, at Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, Faculty of Law of University of Macao, Macao, China; Editor-in-Chief of Macau Law Review. Her research interests include competition law, consumer law, WTO law, international investment law and the economic and commercial relations between China and the Portuguese-speaking countries. The author thanks the two anonymous referees for comments and suggestions on an earlier draft

Published date: 03 Jun 2014

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Macao, a former Portuguese colony and now one of only two Special Administrative Regions of the People’s Republic of China, is undergoing unprecedented socio-economic growth and transformation. Using Macao as an empirical case, the paper examines the challenges of regional integration and globalization on legal theories, identifies how law interacts with other socio-cultural factors, and analyzes the self-reflection and self-adjustments of a legal culture in dynamic and diverse dimensions of time and space. The paper aims to find an innovative approach to discover the progressive pattern of inertia, evolution, survival, diffusion and interaction of a legal tradition in a global context.

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WEI Dan . MACAO’S LEGAL SYSTEM UNDER GLOBALIZATION AND REGIONAL INTEGRATION: BETWEEN TRADITION AND EVOLUTION[J]. Frontiers of Law in China, 2014 , 9(2) : 233 -251 . DOI: 10.3868/s050-003-014-0014-8

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