TY - JOUR
AU - Le, Tang Thanh Trai
AB - Book Reviews LEGAL HISTORY TH E VIETNAMESE TRADITION OF HUMAN RIGHTS. ByTaVanTai. In­ stitute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley 1988. Pp. xiv, 293. Reviewed by Tang Thanh Trai Le* The author, Dr. Ta Van Tai, is an accomplished scholar whose legal education and practice have spawned over two continents. Fa­ miliar with no less than three legal systems — Vietnamese, French, and American — Tai has authored and co-authored several books and numerous articles on Vietnamese legal history. The monumen­ tal, The Le Code: Law in Traditional Vietnam — A Comparative Sino-Vietnamese Legal Study with Historical-Juridical Analysis and Annotations, a three-volume set that Tai co-authored with Nguyen Ngoc Huy is, in the words of Professor Alexander Wood- side, "undoubtedly the most important single achievement in schol­ arship to come thus far from the ranks of Vietnamese intellectuals exiled from Vietnam since 1975." Professor John Quigley, reviewing the same work in this Journal concluded that it "will provide grist for the mills of comparatists for many years." Similar accolades can be given to Tai's most recent work, The Vietnamese Tradition of Human Rights. The purpose of this remarkable monograph is first, to provide a study of traditional 
TI - The Vietnamese Tradition of Human Rights by Ta Van Tai
JF - American Journal of Comparative Law
DO - 10.2307/840318
DA - 1990-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-vietnamese-tradition-of-human-rights-by-ta-van-tai-JSdWhiD056
SP - 717
EP - 720
VL - 38
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -