Buddhism, Law and Comparative Law: the (Rebecca) French Connection 

Rebecca R. French, What is Buddhist Law? Opening Ideas, 64 Buffalo L. Rev. 833 (2015), available at SSRN.

Hoi Kong

Professor Rebecca Redwood French’s What is Buddhist Law? Opening Ideas is a major contribution to the nascent field of Buddhist legal studies and has the potential to advance our thinking about comparative law. In this review, I will highlight the article’s significance to these two areas of study.

Professor French notes that although there is significant writing on the legal dimensions of the Christian, […]