Adapting legal cultures
By: edited by David Nelken and Johannes Feest.
Contributors: Nelken, David.; Feest, Johannes.; Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law.
Series: Oñati international series in law and society
Publisher: Hart
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford ; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Culture and law; Sociological jurisprudence; Law -- History; Law -- Interpretation and construction
Description: 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
Notes: "A series published for the Oñati Institute for the Sociology of Law."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1.; title: Pt. 1.; title: Pt. 1. -- David Nelken; title: Pt. 1. -- David Nelken -- Pierre Legrand; title: Pt. 1. -- David Nelken -- Pierre Legrand -- Roger Cotterrell; title: Pt. 1. -- David Nelken -- Pierre Legrand -- Roger Cotterrell -- Lawrence Friedman -- State formation and legal change: on the impact of international politics / -- Alex Jettinghoff; title: Pt. 1. -- David Nelken -- Pierre Legrand -- Roger Cotterrell -- Lawrence Friedman -- State formation and legal change: on the impact of international politics / -- Alex Jettinghoff -- Wolf Heydebrand -- Pt. 2.; title: Pt. 1. -- David Nelken -- Pierre Legrand -- Roger Cotterrell -- Lawrence Friedman -- State formation and legal change: on the impact of international politics / -- Alex Jettinghoff -- Wolf Heydebrand -- Pt. 2.; title: Pt. 1. -- David Nelken -- Pierre Legrand -- Roger Cotterrell -- Lawrence Friedman -- State formation and legal change: on the impact of international politics / -- Alex Jettinghoff -- Wolf Heydebrand -- Pt. 2. -- Luke Nottage; title: Pt. 1. -- David Nelken -- Pierre Legrand -- Roger Cotterrell -- Lawrence Friedman -- State formation and legal change: on the impact of international politics / -- Alex Jettinghoff -- Wolf Heydebrand -- Pt. 2. -- Luke Nottage -- Takao Tanase; title: Pt. 1. -- David Nelken -- Pierre Legrand -- Roger Cotterrell -- Lawrence Friedman -- State formation and legal change: on the impact of international politics / -- Alex Jettinghoff -- Wolf Heydebrand -- Pt. 2. -- Luke Nottage -- Takao Tanase -- Andrew Harding; title: Pt. 1. -- David Nelken -- Pierre Legrand -- Roger Cotterrell -- Lawrence Friedman -- State formation and legal change: on the impact of international politics / -- Alex Jettinghoff -- Wolf Heydebrand -- Pt. 2. -- Luke Nottage -- Takao Tanase -- Andrew Harding -- Tony Prosser; title: Pt. 1. -- David Nelken -- Pierre Legrand -- Roger Cotterrell -- Lawrence Friedman -- State formation and legal change: on the impact of international politics / -- Alex Jettinghoff -- Wolf Heydebrand -- Pt. 2. -- Luke Nottage -- Takao Tanase -- Andrew Harding -- Tony Prosser -- Yves Dezalay, Bryant Garth; title: Pt. 1.-- David Nelken-- Pierre Legrand-- Roger Cotterrell-- Lawrence Friedman -- State formation and legal change: on the impact of international politics /-- Alex Jettinghoff-- Wolf Heydebrand-- Pt. 2.-- Luke Nottage-- Takao Tanase-- Andrew Harding-- Tony Prosser-- Yves Dezalay, Bryant Garth-- John Flood.