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1994 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

The legal environment

Author : Walter Cairns

Published in: The European Business Environment

Publisher: Macmillan Education UK

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Since the original six member states of the European Community (EC) had very similar legal systems based on the codified law model, it is this system which dominates European Union (EU) law. However, the enlargements of the EC in the 1970s and 1980s made it necessary to assimilate new legal concepts, particularly those on which the Anglo-Saxon systems are based.

Metadata
Title
The legal environment
Author
Walter Cairns
Copyright Year
1994
Publisher
Macmillan Education UK
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23636-7_4