“First thing we do,” wrote Shakespeare in Henry VI, Part II, “is kill all the lawyers.” Nowadays, the first thing countries trying to get rich seem to do is import dozens of lawyers. In Eastern Europe, former communist countries applying for European Union membership must harmonize their laws with those of the EU. So extensive is this process that it sometimes appears as a “legislative tornado.”
“First thing we do,” wrote Shakespeare in Henry VI, Part II, “is kill all the lawyers.” Nowadays, the first thing countries trying to get rich seem to do is import dozens of lawyers. In Eastern Europe, former communist countries applying for European Union membership must harmonize their laws with those of the EU. So extensive is this process that it sometimes appears as a “legislative tornado.”