Eurasian Legal Systems in a World in Transition

Eurasia is neither a juxtaposition of sub-regions – Central Asia, West Europe, East Asia – nor a single, coherent legal system. It mixes sui generis evolutions and mutual influences of its constituent systems. The period of Eurasian countries going their own, national(ist) way in building a legal system (Europe before 1950, Central Asia under Soviet rule, East Asia in colonialisms) has yielded to one when no ‘universal’ system applies. Regional mechanisms are mutually inspired, for instance the