European and Vietnamese scholars met in Hanoi on February 5 todiscuss how to integrate foreign law perspectives into domestic law.
Addressing the international seminar “The Challengesand Practices of Legal Transplant in Vietnam: Sharing EuropeanExperiences”, Chairman of the National Assembly’s Law Committee PhanTrung Ly said Vietnam is improving its legislative policies byreferencing to foreign laws, known as legal transplants.
Legal transplant in Vietnam is still new, poorly understood, and hasnot drawn adequate attention thus far. Moreover, there remains someincompatibility in the Vietnamese legal system with available rules oflegal transplant in the world, he added.
DelphineMalard, First Counsellor and head of the Political, Press andInformation Section of the European Union (EU) Delegation to Vietnam,said sharing European experience in this issue can be highly valuablefor Vietnamese legislators, especially in the context of the need toadapt Vietnamese legislation to the new Constitution.
Professor Helen Xanthaki from the Institute of Advanced Legal Studiesat the University of London presented on European legal transplantpolicies and practices of legal transplantation in the parliaments of EUmember states.
Professor Norbert Reich fromGermany’s Bremen University presented theoretical issues for legaltransplant and current practices of legal transplantation in severalAsian nations.
Meanwhile, Professor HiguchiYoichi from the University of Tokyo shared Japan’s experience withtransferring foreign laws into their legal system.
Co-hosted by the Office of the NA and the EU Delegation to Vietnam, theevent was part of the EU-Vietnam Framework Agreement on ComprehensivePartnership and Cooperation, under which the EU has a strategicobjective to enhance political, economic and cultural cooperation withVietnam.-VNA