Added: Oct 14, 2008

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Challenges to democracy in Albania : hearing before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, One Hundred Fourth Congress, second session, March 14, 1996practice of law had just been re- established, after not existing for over twenty years, Neveretheless, I found a legal tradition that surprised and impressed me. Well into this century, the northern Albanian highlands preserved comprehensive oral codes (called the "Kanun") that contain traces of earliest Indo-European law. In the few short years between consolidation of its independence and the Italian occupation in 1939, Albanian lawyers, trained outside the country since it had no institutions of higher education of its own, succeeded in drafting and enacting civil and criminal codes that were quite good for the time.

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Tags: albanian  history  liberty 

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