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Reform by legal transplantation: Afghanistan's Counter Narcotics Law 2006
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posted on 2023-06-07, 08:27 authored by John JuppJohn JuppWhen the international community has engaged in efforts to assist transitions to peace in countries de-stabilized by conflict, new criminal law is often found to be imperative in to promote the development of fair and effective justice systems, rule of law and due process in accordance with international human rights standards. While the transplantation of readily-available law can be an appealing solution, little scholarship has been dedicated to examining its effectiveness for developing post-intervention criminal law reform. Informed by empirical evidence and qualitative interviews with senior international and Afghan legal personnel. This article addresses this gap in scholarship by evaluating Afghanistan’s Counter Narcotics Law 2006 (CNL). Applying a new test it considers firstly, whether this law was a successful transplant and, secondly, whether it was reasonable for those responsible for drafting it to rely on legal transplantation as a mechanism for reform. It finds that the transplanted content of the CNL and the processes of transplantation reduced the extent to which it was accepted and achieved its objectives and concludes by making recommendations for ‘sensitive’ transplantation based on knowledge of theoretical frameworks on transplant feasibility and legal adaptation, analysis of local legal traditions and collaboration with local justice professionals.
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Comparative Law ReviewISSN
2391-7644Publisher
Nicolaus Copernicus UniversityExternal DOI
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1-61Department affiliated with
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2019-08-16First Open Access (FOA) Date
2020-01-31First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2019-08-16Usage metrics
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