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   "text": "War functions as a catalyst for legal reform because it compels legislators to focus on laws immediately relevant to wartime and post war objectives, which enables rapid removal of outdated, inefficient, or irrelevant provisions that would otherwise persist.",
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   "text": "The speed of post war Japanese legal reform demonstrates that large scale legal change is possible when strong political will and adequate resources are present, which locates the binding constraint on legal cleanup in will and resources rather than in feasibility.",
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