Affiliation:
1. Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany;
2. Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel;
Abstract
The law is permanently under construction. Most legal change is intentional. A legislator, a court, or one of the law's subjects hopes to better achieve a purpose by switching from one rule, one interpretation, or one remedy to the next. Yet empirically, legal innovation tends to be a process that takes time. At the macro level, the diffusion path is often S shaped: It does not start immediately and levels off after a while. This article links legal innovation to diffusion research and discusses micro processes that have the potential to generate the observed diffusion paths.
Subject
Law,Sociology and Political Science
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