Borrowing court systems : the experience of socialist Vietnam / Penelope (Pip) Nicholson.

Leiden : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2007.

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Courts -- Vietnam -- History.

Justice, Administration of -- Vietnam.

Courts -- Soviet Union.

Comparative law.

1. Comparative law in a post-modern world

2. Translating the Vietnamese system of dispute resolution: 1945-1959

3. Vietnamese courts introduced: 1945-1959

4. Dispute resolution between 1959-1976: changing relations between committees and courts

5. Courts in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam between 1959-1976: the legislative scheme and centralization

6. Courts in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam between 1959-1976: court culture

7. The Soviet Union and its courts

8. Soviet dispute resolution

9. Similarities and differences between the Soviet court model and the Russian court experience

10. Similarities and differences between Soviet and Vietnamese court systems: unravelling the courses

11. Parenting: the Soviet Union and Vietnam

12. Contemporary Vietnamese courts.

This history of the Vietnamese court system between 1945 and 2005 argues that, when the Soviet system of dispute resolution was transplanted into Vietnam, it was remoulded to assume Vietnamese characteristics and a separate identity.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9789004156319

1387-6317

xix, 347 pages ; 25 cm