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