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The legal environment

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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.

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Authors
  1. Walter Cairns
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

    Neill Nugent (Professor of Politics) (Professor of Politics)

  2. National Economic and Social Council, Dublin, Ireland

    Rory O’Donnell (Director) (Director)

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© 1994 Walter Cairns

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Cairns, W. (1994). The legal environment. In: Nugent, N., O’Donnell, R. (eds) The European Business Environment. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23636-7_4

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