Risk Perception, Culture, and Legal Change - A Comparative Study on Food Safety in the Wake of the Mad Cow Crisis

Zusatztext 'This book is a path-breaking and highly topical study of the cultural contexts of the regulation of safety.' David Nelken! Cardiff University! UK 'Why have different nations reacted so diversely to "mad cow" disease? Ferrari's answer is in fact a single! elegant solution to a host of long-standing theoretical puzzles in economics! political science! sociology! and law. His account of culture and risk will provoke debate and deepen insight in all these fields.' Dan Kahan! Yale Law School! USA Informationen zum Autor Dr. Matteo Ferrari is a Post-doctoral Researcher in Comparative Private Law! Department of Juridical Sciences! University of Trento! Italy. He has been visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and at the School of Law! Boston University. Klappentext A study that explores the reasons behind the different responses of the legal systems of Europe! Japan and the USA in coping BSE! one of the major food safety crises. It examines the role that culture plays in moulding the process of legal change. Zusammenfassung This volume analyses the food safety reforms adopted in Japan, Europe and the USA in the aftermath of the BSE crisis, seeking to explain the divergences in such reforms through the so-called 'cultural perception of risk'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Risk Perception, Culture, and Legal Change; Chapter 2 The Administrative Regulation of Foodstuffs; Chapter 3 Tort Liability and Food Safety; Chapter 101; Conclusions;

Product details

• Authors: Matteo Ferrari, Ferrari Matteo
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.12.2009
• EAN: 9780754678113
• ISBN: 978-0-7546-7811-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, LAW / International, LAW / Public, LAW / Environmental, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LAW / Comparative, LAW / Commercial / International Trade, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Industrial Health & Safety, Food & society, comparative law, Social Law, Human Geography, Environment law, Cultural studies: food and society, International economic & trade law, Public international law: economic and trade, Social law and Medical law, Ergonomics