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[email protected]. TRAVELING CONCEPTS: SUBSTANTIVE EQUALITY ON THE ROAD Susanne Baer* Ideas travel. Even legal concepts migrate on the globe. However, it is a contested issue whether migration is a good idea. We may enjoy traveling ourselves, but many people in the world of law are somewhat worried if we take legal baggage along. Some claim that legal baggage never arrives at its destination and challenge the very possibility of what some call a legal transplant. Others claim that we already live in transnational legal contexts, while still others claim that migration occurs, and that modifies each legal concept on the road in rather significant ways, which may render the project futile. Yet others, albeit few indeed, but influential when sitting on the U.S.