"This paper examines some important historical documents and books dating back to publications of the late 1700s mostly written about the accounts of the early Burmese society. Early westerners, who arrived in Burma as missionaries and later as merchants and diplomatic appointees especially by the British India government, have recorded their own account of Burma as they saw it. In addition, cholarly works written in the period after Burma?s independence in 1948 by the Burmese and western historians are also examined. The purpose of this paper is two fold: (1) to interpret and analyze the conceptual unfolding of law in the context of Burmese Dhammathats as well as the traditional social and cultural elements; and (2) to analyze the current state of challenges at the transition..."