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
David Nelken is Professor of Law at the University of Macerata in Italy. Johannes Feest is Professor of Law at the University of Bremen.
...brings to the forefront critical debates that demand attention
in any serious comparative endeavour.
*The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Vol. 38,
No. 1*
The collection of essays by Nelken and Feest makes an important
contribution to both comparative law and legal sociology
particularly because it does not confine itself to the classical
legal systems which many comparative lawyers (like myself) have
studied, and because it endeavours to create a dialogue between
comparative lawyers and legal sociologists in terms of both theory
and the analysis of particular legal developments. A combination of
the two fields of legal scholarship presents a significant
dimension to contemporary comparative law, and this collection will
be a major point of reference in both fields. In the end, this book
marks an important step in developing an agenda for comparative law
in our contemporary world.
*International and Comparative Law Quarterly*
The chapters in this volume offer a range of valuable insights
*Tilburg Foreign Law Review*
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