ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to set the scene for the following special issue, which contains five papers relating to research on law reform in common law and mixed jurisdictions and which forms part of a wider research project (Law Reform Project) carried out within the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS), University of London. The first hypothesis of this research was that due to the contrasting way in which the traditions of the British common law have developed within the two mixed jurisdictions examined in this volume (namely South Africa and Israel) and their different connections with the Commonwealth, the concepts of law reform there do differ from one another. The second hypothesis of this research was that, within a homogeneous area (i.e. common law or mixed jurisdictions which all have strong historical and cultural connections with the U.K. in common and which are all members of the Commonwealth), the model of law reform, although rather homogenous, is differently shaped in each of these jurisdictions and goes beyond the British model. The case studies analysed here are New Zealand, Australia, Canada and South Africa. The articles published here seem to support some provisional conclusions on the adoption of law reform processes.

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超越英国模式。新西兰、澳大利亚、加拿大、南非和以色列的法律改革

摘要 本文的目的是为以下专刊奠定基础，其中包含五篇与普通法和混合法域法律改革研究相关的论文，并且构成了更广泛的研究项目（法律改革项目）的一部分。伦敦大学高级法律研究所 (IALS)。本研究的第一个假设是，由于英国普通法传统在本卷研究的两个混合司法管辖区（即南非和以色列）内发展的方式截然不同，以及它们与英联邦的不同联系，概念那里的法律改革确实各不相同。本研究的第二个假设是，在同质区域内（即 普通法或混合司法管辖区都与英国有着密切的共同历史和文化联系，并且都是英联邦成员），法律改革的模式虽然相当同质，但在这些司法管辖区中的每一个都有不同的形式，并且超出了英国模特。这里分析的案例研究是新西兰、澳大利亚、加拿大和南非。此处发表的文章似乎支持关于采用法律改革程序的一些临时结论。