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JOH N HENRY MERRYMAN To a comparative lawyer, the end of th e socialist revolution in th e Soviet Union and its satellites provides a number of topics for reflection. For one, why did th e effort to build a socialist legal system following the 1917 Revolution produce such apparently inconsequen tial results? The American and French Revolutions are generally thought to have had fundamental, lasting legal consequences that are clearly visible today in legal systems throughout the world, but Soviet socialist law a t its height seems never to have penetrated the surface of th e culture in th e USSR or elsewhere. Socialist legal prin in retrospect to have been at most a sort of temporary ciples appear superstructur e erected on a legal base that was largely Western in character. With th e en d of th e Soviet experiment tha t superstructure has been dismantled, leaving few marks. To us e a different meta phor, the Western legal body appears to have rejected the socialist transplant . The attempt to build a socialist legal order now looks more like a temporary deviation than a new direction. My purpose here is to discuss a legal invention
American Journal of Comparative Law – Oxford University Press
Published: Jan 1, 1996
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