Editing Micronesia (section)

===Law===
''Understanding Law in Micronesia'' notes that The Federated States of Micronesia's laws and legal institutions are "uninterestingly similar to [those of Western countries]". However, it explains that "law in Micronesia is an extraordinary flux and flow of contrasting thought and meaning, inside and outside the legal system". It says that a knee-jerk reaction would be that law is disarrayed in the region and that improvement is required, but argues that the failure is "one endemic to the nature of law or to the ideological views we hold about law".<ref name=Tamanaha1993>{{cite book|last=Tamanaha|first=Brian Z.|title=Understanding Law in Micronesia: An Interpretive Approach to Transplanted Law|pages=1–2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LPA9LCS9-RIC&q=%22micronesia%22 | publisher = E.J. Brill | location = Leiden, Netherlands |isbn=9004097686|year=1993}}</ref>

The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, a United Nations Trusteeship administered by the United States, borrowed heavily from United States law in establishing the Trust Territory Code during the Law and Development movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Many of those provisions were adopted by the new Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia when the Federated States of Micronesia became self-governing in 1979.<ref name=Tamanaha1993 />