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Zusatztext The chapters in this volume offer a range of valuable insights Informationen zum Autor David Nelken is Professor of Law at the University of Macerata in Italy.Johannes Feest is Professor of Law at the University of Bremen. Klappentext Essays on the theory and practice of comparative law. Zusammenfassung This exciting collection looks at the theory and practice of legal borrowing and adaptation in different areas of the world: Europe,the USA and Latin America, S.E. Asia and Japan. Many of the contributors focus on fundamental theoretical issues. What are legal transplants? What is the role of the state in producing socio-legal change? What are the conditions of successful legal transfers? How is globalisation changing these conditions? Such problems are also discussed with reference to substantive and specific case studies. When and why did Japanese rules of product liability come into line with those of the EU and the USA? How and why did judicial review come late to the legal systems of Holland and Scandinavia? Why is the present wave of USA-influenced legal reforms in Latin Amercia apparently having more success than the previous round? How does competition between the legal and accountancy professions affect patterns of bankruptcy? The chapters in this volume, which include a comprehensive theoretical introduction, offer a range of valuable insights even if they also show that the Inhaltsverzeichnis PART ONE: THEORISING LEGAL ADAPTATIONIntroduction1. Towards a Sociology of Legal AdaptationDavid Nelken2. What "Legal Transplants"?Pierre Legrand3. Is There a Logic of Legal Transplants?Roger Cotterrell4. Some Comments on Cotterrell and Legal TransplantsLawrence Friedman5. State Formation and Legal Change: On the Impact of International PoliticsAlex Jettinghoff6. From Globalisation of Law to Law under GlobalisationWolf HeydebrandPART TWO: CASE-STUDIES OF LEGAL ADAPTATIONIntroduction7. The Still-Birth and Re-birth of Product Liability in JapanLuke Nottage8. The Empty Space of the Modern in Japanese Law DiscourseTakao Tanase9. Comparative Law and Legal Transplantation in South East AsiaAndrew Harding10. Marketisation! Public Service and Universal ServiceTony Prosser11. The Import and Export of Law and Legal Institutions: International Strategies in National Palace WarsYves Dezalay and Bryant Garth12. The Vultures Fly East: The Creation and Globalisation of the Distressed Debt MarketJohn Flood ...
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David Nelken is Professor of Comparative and Transnational Law and past Vice-Dean for Research at King’s College London, UK. Widely published in sociology of law and in criminology, he has received awards from the American Sociological Association, the American Society of Criminology, the International Sociological Association, and the (USA) Law and Society Association. He has twice been a Trustee of the LSA and Vice-President of the RSCL.Johannes Feest is Professor of Law at the University of Bremen.
