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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Adapting Legal Cultures 2001 by Edited by Professor David Nelken Edited by Johannes Feest
This exciting collection looks at the theory and practice of legal borrowing and adaptation in different areas of the world: Europethe 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 theshow more