David Nelken / Johannes Feest (eds.)

Adapting Legal Cultures

Herausgeber: Nelken, David; Feest, Johannes

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Essays on the theory and practice of comparative law.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781841132921
• ISBN-10: 1841132926
• Artikelnr.: 21132308

Autorenporträt

David Nelken is Professor of Law at the University of Macerata in Italy. Johannes Feest is Professor of Law at the University of Bremen.

Inhaltsangabe

PART ONE: THEORISING LEGAL ADAPTATION
Introduction
1. Towards a Sociology of Legal Adaptation
David Nelken
2. What "Legal Transplants"?
Pierre Legrand
3. Is There a Logic of Legal Transplants?
Roger Cotterrell
4. Some Comments on Cotterrell and Legal Transplants
Lawrence Friedman
5. State Formation and Legal Change: On the Impact of International
Politics
Alex Jettinghoff
6. From Globalisation of Law to Law under Globalisation
Wolf Heydebrand
PART TWO: CASE-STUDIES OF LEGAL ADAPTATION
Introduction
7. The Still-Birth and Re-birth of Product Liability in Japan
Luke Nottage
8. The Empty Space of the Modern in Japanese Law Discourse
Takao Tanase
9. Comparative Law and Legal Transplantation in South East Asia
Andrew Harding
10. Marketisation, Public Service and Universal Service
Tony Prosser
11. The Import and Export of Law and Legal Institutions: International
Strategies in National Palace Wars
Yves Dezalay and Bryant Garth
12. The Vultures Fly East: The Creation and Globalisation of the Distressed
Debt Market
John Flood