David Nelken / Johannes Feest (eds.)

Adapting Legal Cultures

Herausgeber: Feest, Johannes; Nelken, David

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book looks at the theory and practice of legal borrowing and adaptation in different areas of the world and offers a range of valuable insights.

Produktdetails

• Onati International Series in Law and Society
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9781841132914
• ISBN-10: 1841132918
• Artikelnr.: 22195072

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