Abstract
Largely due to colonialism, many states today are not guided by a single legal tradition but rather a mixture of legal traditions emerging out of varied, and sometimes conflicting, histories. Using India and Kenya as case studies, this chapter considers how the intertwining of multiple legal traditions affects the development of the institutional and cultural characteristics that facilitate or hinder internalization of international law. India has a mixed tradition incorporating the Hindu legal tradition, the Islamic legal tradition, and elements of the common law tradition of the British who ruled India prior to independence. Kenya has a legal tradition which includes customary law, Islamic law, and common law. This chapter examines how policy toward international law is formed when there are multiple legal influences, and how states with multiple traditions reconcile differing cultural perceptions of the role of law and attitudes about appropriate standards of behavior.
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