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PART ONE: THEORISING LEGAL ADAPTATION 3

Introduction 3

1. Towards a Sociology of Legal Adaptation&David Nelken 7

2. What "Legal Transplants"?&Pierre Legrand 55

3. Is There a Logic of Legal Transplants?&Roger Cotterrell 70

4. Some Comments on Cotterrell and Legal Transplants&Lawrence Friedman 93

5. State Formation and Legal Change: On the Impact of International Politics&Alex Jettinghoff 99

6. From Globalisation of Law to Law under Globalisation Wolf Heydebrand 117

PART TWO: CASE-STUDIES OF LEGAL ADAPTATION 141

Introduction 141

7. The Still-Birth and Re-birth of Product Liability in Japan&Luke Nottage 147

8. The Empty Space of the Modern in Japanese Law Discourse&Takao Tanase 187

9. Comparative Law and Legal Transplantation in South East Asia Andrew Harding 199

10. Marketisation, Public Service and Universal Service&Tony Prosser 223

11. The Import and Export of Law and Legal Institutions: International Strategies in National Palaee Wars&Yves Dezalay and Bryant Garth 241

12. The Vultures Fly East: The Creation and Globalisation of the Distressed Debt Market&John Flood 257

Index 279