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Vietnam - legal and judicial development (pdf 168K)

During the last decade, Viet Nam has undergone a massive legislative transformation. Emerging from decades of rule through administrative fiat, reforms now aim to shift economic regulation from government edicts to universally applicable legislative norms and macroeconomic levers. In addition to enacting a legal framework broadly in line with a Continental civil law system and international legal norms, the state is belatedly reconfiguring legal institutions to suit the post-doi moi environment.

Since it has the potential to radically change both state implementation and social perceptions of law, this institutional transformation forms the focus of this survey. From the Vietnamese perspective, the dilemma of law reform is to what extent legal rules can bifurcate to accommodate foreign and domestic investors in the pursuit of industrialisation and modernisation, while largely ignoring the political side of the legal system.

 

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